DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 25 November 1942, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

THEFT OF CARGO. P.A. AUCKLAND, Nov. 24. Thefts of cargo must be regarded as a grave matter these days, said the Magistrate (Mr Morling) in sentencing a waterside worker, Harold Beggs, to three weeks’ imprisonment, to-day, for stealing a tin of salmon, valued at Is 9d, the property of the U.S. Government. Accused pleaded that he had given w'ay to temptation, when he saw a number of tins rolling round in the vi'harf shed. MAN FOUND GASSED. P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 23. When the owner of a vacant house in Antigua Street, visited it about. 10.30 a.m. yesterday, ' he found the house filled with gas and a man lying dead. The dead man was Mr Edward Lewellyn. Edwards, aged 39 years, married, whose address has not yet been established. Edwards was found lying by an open gas jet with his head under an overcoat. An inquest was held before the. Coroner (Mr F. F. Reid) this morning and a verdict returned that Ed- ! wards committed suicide by coal gas poisoning. BOY DROWNED. P.A. TAUM'ARUNUI, Nov. 23. Hoani Ponga Paiaka, aged 10 years, was drowned in the Ongarue River yesterday. A companion, Samuel Gawith, aged 13, made strenuous efforts to rescue the boy. SOLDIERS BREAK CAM’P. WANGANUI, Nov. 23. An assertion that they broke camp and resorted to crime, because tney were “fed up” with the monotony of army life, was made, when having pleaded guilty in the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court to-day to seven charges of breaking and entering by night and theft, Ivan Evans Stanley, Thomas Port and James Ernest Arthur Ward, soldiers, were committed to the Wellington Supreme Court for sentence. Evans, when asked .if he had anything to say in answer to the charges replied that they had committed the offences because of the army. He wanted to get overseas; as he was fed Up doing the same thing over and over again in camp. He had been kept in detention with handcuffs on all the time, even to eat, make his bed and sleep. He would like to be ■transferred to some camp from where he could be sent overseas, i Port said he was fed up with <me monotony of camp, and unless he could join the overseas forces; he did

not want anything to do with the Territorial camps in New Zealand He was willing to go overseas. Ward said the same and if he had t 0 go back to the same training he knew for sure he would end m the same way as at present. 1 GENERAL FREYBERG HONOURED i WELLINGTON, Nov. 24. The Prime Minister (Hon. P. ■ Fraser) announced to-day that on the recommendation of the Commander-in-Chief, the King has been pleased to confer the honour of K.C.B. on . General Freyberg, G.0.C., Second New Zealand Division, in recognition of the supreme gallantry and excellent achievements of the New Zealand troops and their commander, in the opening stages of the recent operations. “The granting of this high honour will, I know,” said Mr. Fraser, “give the greatest satistac- . tion and pleasure both to the people of the Dominion and to the officers and men of the Second N.Z.E.F., whom General Freyberg has led with such distinction and ability during nearly three years of strenuous acI tivity.” Mr. Fraser added that he ’; had sent to General Freyberg a message of heartiest congratulation. TRIBUTE TO FIGHTING SERVICES. : | WELLINGTON, Nov. 24. I A resolution paying tribute to the I men of the New Zealand fighting services and assuring the Government of continued support for men and women of the services was passed at the Dominion conference of patriotic bodies last week. It read: “That tins conference of delegates of patriotic organisations expresses its admiration of the exploits of our own New Zealand servicemen and those of our Allies reflected in the recent war news and assures the men and women or our forces through the Government of continued efforts in the highest interests of those who have fought ana are fighting our battles.” MASONIC CENTENNIAL. WELLINGTON Nov 24. The New Zealand Pacific Masonic LoHge (Wellington) at its thousand and ninety-first meeting, last nigm, celebrated its hundredth . birthday and incidentally the centennial of tne establishment of the Masomc m New Zealand on November 23, first Master, and founder of tne Order in New Zealand, , was ,9 Smith, who arrived by the ship, Sir John Falstaff, in June 1841.