GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 September 1924, Page 5

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

WITHOUT LAWFUL EXCUSE

(EY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN. Sept. 10,. •I n the City Police Court to-day, Leonard Clement, a one-armed’ mail, was sentenced to one month’s hard labour for being found on the private premises of George Walkley without lawful excuse. After hearj*l# the evidence, Mr. Bartholomew 7, S.M., said the accused was evidently not on the premises for theft, so he must be something in the nature of a pervert or a “Peeping Tom.” PURCHASE OF RADIUM.

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 10. An appeal to the public to subscribe the remainder of the £BOOO to purchase radium for the proposed Radium Department was decided upon at a meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board to-day

A WIDOW’S ERROR

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 10. Mary Ann Caslimere, a widow, was charged at the Magistrate’s Court with having, by means of a false statement, obtained a pension certificate to which she was not- entitled. It was alleged that she had defrauded the' Government qf £7B. Chief-Detective Gibson said the accused was a widow with four children', nt n 1922, she was granted a pension of £/8 a year. She was then entitled to it. In August of that year she commenced work at nine shillings a day and she failed to give a return of her earnings.

The Magistrate said the woman appeared to be of good character otherwise, and she would be admitted to probation for three years on condition that she repaid the £7B at the rate of five shillings a week

THEFT OF MONEY. ' HASTINGS. Sept. 11. Claude Charles Brinsley, branch manager for Seouller and Qo. at Hastings, pleaded guilty to the theft of £394 16s od, the property of the company, and was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court, Wellington.

SCHOONER OVERDUE

WELLINGTON. Sept. 10. The following warning was broadcasted by radio from Suva at 8.10 p.m.: The three-masted wooden auxiliary schooner Daracrane left the Gilbert Islands for Fanning Island on .Tune 30 and has not arrived. Now overdue. Report any news of this vessel.