DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1937, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS

GAMING HOUSE FINE. i. ~ e <Pei Press Association—Copyright). It ~ HASTINGS, June 10. | After a police raid in Hastings last l e j evening, Francis Stanley Rhodes ap- . peared in the Magistrate’s Court to--0 day before Mr J. Miller, S.M., eharjged with allowing rooms in Davis street i to be used as a common gaming house. s Rhodes, who pleaded guilty, was’fined g £BO, two months being allowed in g which to pay. a Detective Sergeant Revell said he found betting apparatus on the defendant’s premises. It was the defendant’s first offence. A DRUNK’S THANKS, j ■*. AUCKLAND, June 10.': - = “I would like to thank you', sir,> arid . the Court, for the/opportunity afforded, me to; bring iny health back to nofnnd. In the prison hospital the treatment given riie was more than I expected.” This unusual tribute to t|ie curative treatment afforded him while ! on remand was paid by a man "who appeared before Mr Wyvern , Wilson, S.M., on a charge of being found in;a state of helpless drunkenness on June 1 8. The police said that when the man was remanded last week he was in a) very bad way. This morning lie was fully recovered and: bright and cheerful. The Magistrate convicted Rim and ordered him to pay £1 10s expenses.

MOTOR CYCLIST HITS TRUCK. EKFTAHUNA, June 11. A fatal motor accident occurred, about dusk this evening ) near Nireaha, on the main Eketahuna road. A truck, loaded with metal, collided with a motor cycle ridden by Eddy Christensen, a young man residing at Putara. Christensen was killed instantly, the wheel of the truck passing over him. His brother, who was riding behind him, jumped clear before the impact and escaped injury. Tho driver of the truck was Reg Duncan. CARPENTERS WANTED. AUCKLAND, June 11. “The housing scheme is being delayed in Wellington owing to a shortage of tradesmen. We can do with one I hundred carpenters here at once.” This statement, in a telegram, wa s received in Auckland to-day from Mr J. A Lee. V The Secretary of the Carpenters’ Union and the Placement Officer were 'immediately interviewed, the result indicating that Auckland can supply only three men. | More men could, perhaps,- be obtained if a guarantee were given' that the men would he employed for a definite 1 period, and if certain other conditions ( were complied with. DOG TRIALS. MASTER TON, June 11. The North island championship short head and yard event at the clog trials to-day resulted : R. J. Wiffdn i (Dannevirke) Bet first; A. Cleehorn ! (Fiei!d.ing) ; Sweep, second; J. Timm | (Havelock North), Tip, third ; C. Wiffen 1 (Dannevirke), Star, fourth. There were upward of 75 entries. The concluding event, the huntaway, is booked to finish on Monday. ' DIVORCE CASE. AUCKLAND, June 11. Mrs Radley, in her evidence, denied she ever had threatened to commit suicide, or that she did any damage to the children. Re-examined by Air Meredith, witness said she had remonstrated with her husband for his friendliness with Mrs X. “When he returned from his trip, lie brought a bangle and dress material for Airs X., but nothing for witness. It was only after she and her husband bad returned from England that she ascertained that, before their departure, he had transferred £309 from her account to his own, and that the trip was at her own expense. Afr Justice Callan intimated that he had to go to AVellington to the Court of Appeal sittings, and further hearing was adjourned to a date to be fixed.