DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 16 December 1930, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS

DEFENCE OFFICERS' RETIREMENT. (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., December 15 I Colonel J. 11. Whyte, Chief Officer j of the Central Military Command, and Major S. G. Sandle, Assistant Ad-jutant-General, Central Command, both stationed at Palmerston North,, receiv- ’ ed notice this morning that they were 1 to retire on superannuation immedi-1 ately, "being the outcome of the policy ' of retrenchment by the Defence Department. Colonel I. T. Standish sue-, | ceeds Colonel Whyte as head of the ' Central Command. Major Stevens yvIII I fill the vacancy created by the transfer 'of Colonel Standish,. Captain Hunt 1 ■Musketry Officer, replaces Major , [Sandle. Members of the clerical staff) who received notice of retirement were . , Messrs T. Inglis, C. W. White, and W. ' ! Jones. Similar advice was received by (Staff-Sergeant Major Taylor and ScrIgeant Finch. RAILWAY FATALITY.

WANGANUI, December 14. j A Railway painter, Mr. Woolnough, iafter an accident, was admitted to the (hospital, but died soon after. SHOTGUN FATALITY. : WELLINGTON, December 15. • With a shotgun beside him, a :cheesemaker, J. Knox, aged twentypix, was found in the bush with a jshot wound over the heart, about a |mile from the Mangaroa dairy fac|tory where he was employed, early lon Saturday evening. | v &• An ambulance went to Mangaroa to bring the victim to the hospital, but ! death occurred before the city was -reached. The body was taken to the 1 morgue. THE RADIOPHONE. WELLINGTON, December 15. In reference to the opening of the Now Zealand-London radio telephone service, the Secretary of the Post and Telegnaph Department (Mr AlcNamara) stated that the cabled date was - only tentative. At the present time, • transmission at Sydney was causing some trouble, and although they had been able to get through o*nce or twice, no deffnite date could be fixed until the service had given complete satisfaction. With a little luck, they might be able to open the service on December 19. SIX MONTHS’ FOR FAILURE TO MAINTAIN. | CHRISTCHURCH, December 14. j John Petley, a bush man, aged forty(three years, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the ‘Magistrates Court, on a charge of failure to maintain his five children under an order made at Auckland in 1925. ,On a further charge of being in a state of helpless drunkenness in Holy Street, Cheviot, he was ordered to pay medical expenses, in default seven . days ’ imprisonment.

FRAUD ALLEGED. DUNEDlN,December ,15.. ' David Thomas Lilburne was charged with obtaining £2B from Godfrey ;Hall, of Hororata by falsely represent'lng that he had a thoroughbred English stallion named Belaton, standing the season at Milton. Detective Nuttall gave evidence that ,in May last accused entered into nego(iations with a bloodstock firm in [Sydney for the lease of Belaton. Between June and August, he adver(tised Belaton to stand the season, the , advertisement being circulated through out New Zealand in large type. As a I result Hall forwarded two mares to Licensed. Later, the accused wrote askpng for a cheque which Hall forwardled. Accused cashed it at Milton and paid his debts. The horse he advertised never left Australia. Accused was remanded for n week. FIRE BRIGADE CALLS. WELLINGTON, December 1.5 The number of calls received by the Wellington Fire Brigade last month, is one of the largest totals ever recorded at Wellington. False alarms numbered 34, and of these 21 were malicious. Of the remaining 67 calls 1 32 were property fires, 8 chimney fires land 27 gorse, grass, and rubbish fires. ' Tn the eight months, ended November | this year, the brigade received 646 calls, compared with 496 for the corresponding period last year. DESPICABLE THEFT. DUNEDIN, December 15. Henry Walter Reid was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment for theft and false pretences. The Magistrate described the theft as despicable. Accused took advantage of a man he met in the hospital and [robbed him. ! MATRIC. PAPERS TOO “STIFF.” | WELLINGTON, December 15. I Considerable dissatisfaction was I caused among matriculation students, [and the headmasters of the schools : they attended, by the difficult arithImetie paper set for this year’s examination. A further cause of complaint is the appearance of a mistake in the first section of the geometry paper. ■ One mathematics master declared [that the arithmetic paper was stiff enough for a degree examination. He would not guarantee to do more than 65 per cent, of the questions himself. For the Matriculation or University Entrance, only a mathematics genius could tackle the paper, and a great majority of the boys would not do it after four years at a secondary school. The arrangements of the arithmetic paper has also given rise to dissatisfaction. It is stated that the paper was badly arranged in that a note at the top of the page stated that equal values would not be given for each question. The usual manner if different values are allowed for questions, is to indicate the respective marking for the individual questions. Ihe mistake in the geometry paper was in the first section of question six.