DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 6 September 1939, Page 9

DOMINION NEWS

FREAK LAMB AT LISMORE. .CHRISTCHURCH, September 5. An. unusual -lamb was born on a farm at Lismore and will be sent to the Agricultural Department laboratory as a specimen for the museum. The lamb had two complete heads, but :qt fhe time of birth, one of the heads ' had to be severed. The ewe was ; a Three-quarter-bred six-tooth owe and-, . the ram a Southdown. Freaks of all kinds are reported from time to time, but in this casp the circumstances of the two complete heads make the birth a rare one.

■-. EXPRESSES DELAYED. September 5. A Heavy bounder, which rolled down the:-hillside and blocked the railway line- 'between Kakahi and Owhango. delayed the arrival at Wellington of both expresses from Auckland, each being.-held up at Taumarunui. The first-arrived about two hours late, add theT-Limlted express was nearly as time.

GERMAN ARRESTED, ■ ■'-- 'AUCKLAND, September 5. When he visited police headquarters! to- register, as an alien, to-day. ’ Rudolf? Schmueser, 18, well-bui,l.t and I smartly dressgd. was arrested on a ■: charge of deserting from the German

steamer, Dortmund, at Auckland, .on i April 12. The address given by ; Schmuser was Glen Afton, Huntly. ■ Later, he appeared in the Police Court. Mr Levien, S.M., remanded I him in custody, until Tuesday, re- ■ marking that by then, some indic-a-1 t.ion would be available as to what ■ would be done in respect of Germans, i FRUIT IN SCHOOLS. AUCKLAND, September 5. Support for the ‘‘fruit in schools' scheme, contained in a remit from Manawatu and Orua was expressed, to-day, at a conference of the Dominion Federation of School Ccmmitties. The remit pointed out. that large quantities of fruit were wasted every season, and, as the growers needed ready markets, the Government should be asked to inaugurate a scheme to issue suitable fruit t > schools not on the ‘‘milk in schools” scheme, particularly in rural areas. The. conference approved a rem that facilities be provided .at consoldated schools for serving hot lun heoris to pupils who travel some dis-; tance. INTOXICATION CHARGE. AUCKLAND, September 5. ' “This offence is now notorious, an 1 ■ it is my view that the penalty state 1 in the statute is an expression of I public opinion generally of this typ? of . offence. No man is entitled to have one accident, whether slight or otherwise, before being sent, to prijoon.” said Mr Levien; S.M.; in ’.the

! Police Court, when he- sentenced ■ Spencer Dyson, 64, carpenter, to seven i days’ imprisonment, for being in a state of intoxication while in charge lof a motor-car in Wellesley Street, ■ yesterday afternoon. : The police sai<d that defendant ■ drove on against a stop signal at the intersection of Queen Street. An. inspector stopped him, and found, signs of intoxication. A doctor, 20 minutes later, certified that he was under the : influence of liquor. I “I have a duty to perform, and lam I not going to shirk it,” said the S.M. He ordered the cancellation of defendant’s license for 18 months, i PROBATION FOR THEFT. WELLINGTON, August 5. Admitting Vincent Brinsley Nielsen, 38, telegraphist, to two years’ probation for theft, while a teller at the Te Aro Post Office, the Chief Justice (Sir M. Myers) said that sending the man to prison would ‘make him a liability to the State and. more than ever'these ■ days, every effort should be nicSle to see that every person was.an asset. .' i Probation . was granted upon the iground thht the Court thought Shat ; the prisoner could be converted into I an asset. ' : '■ i Two years’ probation was also given I hi the case of Eric Entwhistle Lester, • ( 23. who destroyed by fire a car lie Was j buying under the hire-purchase sys- : tern. The Judge took int 0 account prisoner’s youth, and the fact that, so ' far *as was known, ho had previously •borne a.good character*