1500K.MAIyI.W'I KINK.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 June 1930, Page 6

1500K.M AIyI.W'I KINK.

AY ELLINGTON, June 5

Arrested by Detectives at 2.3!) this afternoon. Thomas Phillips aged s'. was lined 6250 when lie ‘appeared an hour later belore .Mr 1. B. McNeil S.M.. in tlm Police Court on a charge of carrying on business as a bookmaker. Tie pleaded guilty. Detective Sergeant .Holmes said that accused bad been betting in Wellington since 1920, whim be first came under the notice of the police. In 1922 lie was fined Cloo for keeping a common gaming house, and in 1924 he was again fined £IOO on a similar charge.. m,i|]jps, the Detective Sergeant ad ded was a married man with a fam*l v. He had taken seventy-one bets that day. the largest one being for £5. He bad £64,13s on bis possesion when arrested. Accused was betting in a very substantial way, and was -regarded as one of tbe “medium” type of bookmakers. Accused had nothing to say in reply to the charge The Magistrate said the maximum penalty was £SOO or two years imprisonment. Accused was allowed one month in which to pay the fine; in default’six weeks imprisonment.

DRUNKEN DRIVER. a . AVAIPUKURAU. June 5

Air the:.(Magistrate’s Court this-after-noon, before Air A. AT. Alowlem. S.AL, AY. Campbell, labourer, Omakore, was fiill'll £2O, also costs, for being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car on Afay 17th at AA’aipawa, and bis license -was cancelled for six months.

OLD MAN KILLED

NEW PLYAIOUTH. June 5

" 'Joint"' Biddle, aged seventy was struck by a car while walking on the road near Tariki to-night, and was killed .-instantaneously. His skull was fractured,,front and back, and he bad a compound fracture of -the leg. The car was driven by a man named Belk a resident of Alidliurst. AIOTOR VICTIM DIES. WELLINGTON. June 5. Losing control of bis motor lorry, loaded with sanil, when it stalled in Todman Street. Brooklyn, this mornring, the driver, Arthur B. Shelhourne, residing at 18, Campbell Street, Karori. received severe bead injuries and concussion from which lie subsequently died in the Public Hospital It appears that when the motor stalled while proceeding up Todman Street, ‘lie brakes would not bold the vehicle, and it began to run down the hill backwards. The driver attempted to

the lorry into :i side street, but. in doing so it struck the curb and overturned. Ho was pinned in the cab. and the woodwork bad to be cut away before lie could be extricated. After receiving medical attention, Mr sibelboume was' conveyed to the hospital by the ambulance, where lie died at G ]>.m. XO CLASS DIET IXCTJOXS. A\ KLLI XH'i'OX, dune o. 'I he introduction of class distinctions and different iation in the treatment ol patients in public hospitals were strongly opposed by a deputation from the Wellington Trader; ajnd Labour Council to the Minister of Health. The Director-General of Health gave an assurance that there was no such intention. FATAL OVERDOSE OF A DRUG. Tli AROIIA. June 5. George Brown, married, aged 49. employed as a sharemilker at Alanawaru, died yesterday as the result of a drug taken to induce sleep, and at the inquest the evidence showed Brown was suffering from a painful and to obtain relief, took an overdose of thr' drug, falling into a dee]) sleep from which he did not awaken. A verdict of death hy misadventure was returned. LORRY RTTXS A WAY. WELLINGTON. June e. \ lorry laden with sand got out of control and ran backwards in Tollman