DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 13 October 1936, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS

(Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, October 12. Four hundred and seventy pounds was stolen from a house in Richmond on Saturday afternoon, representing the savings over a number of years of Samuel Matthew Woods, a baker, of 21. Forth Street.

The money was removed from a locked drawer in a writing desk. Between 2 and 5 p.m. on Saturday, when the theft occurred, no one was home. Entry was gained to the house by means of a kitchen window. After making a thorough search of the house,, the thief burst open the drawer of a writing desk in the front bedroom and found it packed with banknotes, some tied in bundles, and others loose. An axe that had evidently been used to prize open the drawer was found in the house. WELLINGTON, October 12. In delivering judgment in the Court of Appeal, in Rodda and otheragainst Lunken, heard on September IS. Mr Justice Ostler said: Tips appeal from the. decision of Acting-Chief Justice Reed raised fln important question as to the privilege possessed by the Crown .of objecting to the production of State papers in litigation. In the opinion of the Court, it entfd not be s. r ud in the circumstances that the decision appealed from was wrong, and therefore the appeal must be dismissed wMh costs. WELLINGTON, October 12. Three Norwegian seamen. Aljalmnr Olsen. Alf Gunnar Larsen, and Kin* Bergen, were charged to-day in the Magistrate’s Court with absenting themselves from the whtil'ng s h’p Anglo-Norse, and from their duty without leave or sufficient reason. Larsen did not appeal. Olsen, who pleaded guilty, was convicted and discharged. The other two were sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment, with the proviso that they be placed aboard the sli'p. if she sa ls beforo the sentence expired. The master of the vessel snij that since their arrival in Wellington, thmen had refused to work. Olsen returned to work on Saturday. Bergen hol’d a master's cerfiflcafe. Ho. won’ on shore when lie was refused ext’" nionev to have his glasses and teeth attended to AUCKLAND. October 10 John Wiliam Graves. aged 32. th o prisoner who escaped from the W:r kune prison camp on September 27 and was not seen again until lie stir rendered Irmself tit the Auek’an' 1 Po'iee Station on Oetiober 2. was sen tenced to an additional six month ’ ’ninrisonnicnt. Sub-Inspector Fix sa'd that Graves was f-’nglej. and a labourer with four pi-,-,.’, .. convictions. When ho gave Irm up ho said that he found con dit : oii« at the prison camp unsu'talile part'eu !••’rl v Hie climate. M>- R'lJn.'on, for the prisoner. sa : d that Graves served in the Brifis 1 ' Armv ; n the Ea‘t, where he contracted ma’ar’a. Ho found that the climate at the prison camp was too co’d. onJ was undernrning h'ls health.. DUNE!’IN, October 12. Aeeord’ng to Mr W. W. Batchelor secretary .of (ho Shop Assistants’ and Hairdressers’ Unions, there is a definite lax ly on the part, of inanv employers in obeying the terms of the now Labour legislation. Tie said the' ’he ninjor'ty had conformed and had given hint great assistance, but others through 'gn >r:nice or ciis p ediiess, ha' 1 made no move to obey the Act. Th' unions had extended every len’ene’’ to date, but there, was no excuse for dodging, since the legislation was clea r. AUCKLAND. October 12. An assurance that the eond t'ons of juniors in the Post and Telegraph D r partment mould be overhauled alm n st mmed’ately wa a - given by Air Parry, who represented the Prime- Minister at the annual re-union of the Auck land section of the P. and T. Employ ces’ Assoc'atiou. Uo said he had been advised to this effect by the Post master-Gcnornl. The matter was rns e r ] bv Mr H. W. Parnel’, DominicPres'dent. who said that many juniors between 21 and 25 received only abon' £2 a wTpk. The P. and T. was at r disadvantage regarding promotion and salar'es compared with railways and -other Public Services. Thev sought a separate salary i clicdule. and hoped the Government wou’d announce that forty years’ service retirement would be ant'om-ilica'lv Introduced. AUCKLAND. October 12. As the result of his visit to Aus tral-ia, Rev. William Pascoe Board v : ce-pre.’Ulent of the Br-Ush Israel World Fedora-Pon, a national organisation of that movement is be-’ng c«fab’ished ’n the Commonwealth. A pas senger on the Aorangi on the wav I'Canada. United Stales, and Br : tain Rev. Board sahl lie. had a most successful month : n Ansitralia. I’he gathering at Sydney Town Hall was stated by the nuthorit : cs to be a record for the build’ng