N.Z. NEWS

Inangahua Times, 17 May 1930, Page 3

N.Z. NEWS

(Per United Press Assn.)

SLY GROOGERS. ONE SENT TO GAOL. ANOTHER FINED £SO. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Following a poliee raid on sly grog l sellers, throe Dalmatians appeared before Mr Hunt, S.M., in the Poliee Court, charged with selling liquor without a license.

One was sent to gaol for two months. A second was fined £SO and a third was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months.

The man who was sent to gaol had been fined £3O in 1928 and £SO last year. He thanked the Magistrate on hearing the sentence.

AFTER HOURS TRADING. LICENSEE FINED £lO. WELLINGTON, Lest Night. Tmothy Kclleher, licensee of Victoria Hotel, was fined £lO in the Magistrate ’a Court for selling liquor after hours. BORSTAL ESCAPEE. GETS THREE YEARS'* DETENTION. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Styrene Edlin, aged nineteen, who the poliee stated had escaped four times from. Point -Halswell Borstal Institution, was today sentenced to rtliree years 7 reformative detention for escaping from the Institution before expiration of her sentence.

A WOMAN FALLS OVER WHARF. RESCUED BY COMPANIONS. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Mrs Hugh Wilson, an elderly woman of 22 Kipling Street, Sydenham, Christchurch, on the way to a ferry boat, walked too near the edge of the wharf and fell into the water. She was accompanied by David and Andrew Christie, 50 Palm Grove, Lyall Bay. David jumped in to save her and held her up for some time and Andrew jumped into a dinghy and helped them both out. Mrs Wilson suffered injuries to the right arm and shock and was taken to the hospital.