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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1940, Page 8

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• CHARGE OF STEALING. PERTH, August 4. Guy Palmerston Christoe, 53, bank officer, was to-day charged in Perth Police Court ’with having, on May 24t1i., 1940, stolen £IOO from the Bank of Australasia. He was remanded on bail. Christoe has been sub-manager of .the Bank of Australasia in Perth for some years. He had been notified of his transfer to the managership of the Launceston (Tasmania) branch, and intended to leave Perth last Saturday by train for Melbourne. He was arrested about the time the train was due to leave. Last week several farewell functions were held for, ‘Christ®© and his wire by banking, golfing, and social friends ESCAPE IN CRASH. DARWIN, August 4. When attempting to take off from Hatches Creek Aerodrome, Central Australia, on Tuesday, a Percival Gull aeroplane crashed and, was completely wrecked. The pilot and two passengers had remarkable escapes. ■ They were Edward Conpollan (pilot), Mr Oswald, director of the Wolfram Mining Company i Hatches Creek, and Mrs George Short, wife of a mine employee on the .field. • After the accident, Mrs Short and Oswald drove 320 miles to Alice Springs, where Oswald caught the airmail plane for Adelaide, It is reported that the wrecked plane was unable to clear the trees surraiunding Hatches Creek Aerodrome. It tore its way through the trees for a quarter of a mile. Both wings were ripped from the fuselage, which was crushed. 1 ■ , The plane was used on the subsidised airmail service between Alice, Springs and Wyndham. ~ WAITER FINED £3O , SYDNEY, August 4.' Walter Li pton, 23, waiter, was fined £3O yesterday at the Licensing Court for haying sold, liquor without a license' at the Pekin Cafe, King’s Cross, on July 25. , : 1 , Police said it ’was the first conviction at the Pekin' Cafe, which is run by Chinese, although there had been many complaints about sly-grdg selling. • . . . k\ Lipton said lie sold the liquor without the knowledge of the proprietor, who was away at the ■ time.' ;