DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 1 March 1945, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS

DESERTER SENTENCED P.A. CHRISTCHURCH. Feb. 27 Found guilty by a court martial of desertion and escaping from confinement, Gunner Robert Edward Steel, 2nd N.Z.E.F. has been sentenced to six months’ detention. When Steel appeared before the court martial at Burnham in February 7 he pleaded not guilty to both charges. The desertion charge was that having been warned for active service, and with intent to evade such service, he absented himself without leave from December 27 until he gave himself up at Balclutha.on January 9. According to the second charge, Steel escaped from the detention barracks at Burnham on December 27. WHANGAREITRAGEDY P.A. WHANGAREI, Foil. 28 Found lying in a pool of blood on the floor of the pantry where she had been washing dishes, which st) I remained to be dried, Mrs. Elizabeth Harris, '62, is in Whangarei Hospital in a critical state, resulting from head injuries, including laceration or the brain. The body of her husbana James Harris, aged 78, was found floating in the harbour. When a son returned from work he lounct the house locked up. Getting steps, he looked through the pantry window and saw his mother on the nooi. ThArP was 110 siSU nfth^ H >

en to the Royal Navy has been fully demonstrated to me. All my best I wishes to you.” PERJURY CONFESSED. P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 27. “Perjury is ah offence for which, as a rule, it is impossible to grant pro-; ballon,” said the Chief Justice, Sir i Michael Myers, in the Supreme Court. to-day, when sentencing Horace, Frank Snowden, of New Plymouth, ■ who had pleaded guilty to giving false eviden.ee during a prosecution for a , ■breach of award in the lower Court. 1 Snowden later went to the Magistrate who heard the case, and admitted having committed perjury. He coniessea to the police on the Magistrate’s aavice. “He made a blunder, but, n - body was defrauded, except the Magistrate,” said His Honour, who admitted Snowden to probation tor sia months.