DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 1 June 1926, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

A BANK CLERK’S LAPSE. {BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, May 31. A young ledger-keeper recently employed by the Bank of New Zealand at Papakura, who was arrested at Sydney, was charged with forging a cheque for £l2O and drawing that sum from a depositor’s account. The accused pleaded guilty and said he was a single man and received a salary of £l7O per annum. He was in ill-health and wanted a drier climate. He cashed the cheque as he had no other means. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, the justices agreeing to the request for suppression of name. FINED FOR “JOY-RIDING.” WELLINGTON, May 31. In imposing a fine ot £2O on William James Brown, a motor driver, aged 24. who admitted two charges of unlawful conversion of a car, the property of D. E. Dustn, the magistrate, Mr Page, said that the car was taken on two occasions. and there was a suggestion, that it had been carelessly driven by Brown. The case arose out of an accident in which a woman was knocked down in Bwen Street while Brown was driving the car.

A CHARGE! DISMISSED

CHRISTCHURCH, May 31. I]i a reserved judgment this, anoriling, the Magistrate, Mir. Widdowson, S.M., dismissed a charge against George Hanafin, .a. chemist, of sending an indecent document through the port. The case was heard on March 22. “It seems peculiar,” said tho nta.i,gist rate, “till,at the defendant Should be charged with is'ending such, documents, while nowspaflrens insert advertis'ementi that deal with, practically the same thing, birth, control, and surgical goods,”