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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 149, 24 May 1928, Page 6

At the Timaru Magistrate’s Court yesterday the proprietor *of a local furniture establishment was fined £3 for a breach of section 41 of the Gaming Act, 1908. To advertise his business defendant had offered to give any piece of furniture in his shop to the winner of a lottery. No charge was made for entry. The proprietor of a newspaper which published details of tho lottery was fined £1 (states a Press Association telegram).

The Manuka has left Melbourne for Wellington.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Pohangina County Council lupin was formally declared a noxious weed throughout the county. It is probable that a new picture theatre will be built in Auckland at a cost of about £IOO,OOO with seating accommodation for 3000 people. A Press Association message from Ashburton states that after the drawing of lots, Mr J. Carr was declared elected chairman of the Ashburton County Council.

The hospital authorities at Wellington last night reported that the condition of Rev. Fielden Taylor, who had been admitted in the morning with a broken thigh, was serious. A substantial donation to the fund which is being raised to erect a National Art Gallery and Museum in Wellington is to be made by the Wellington Harbour Board which last night decided to contribute £SOOO. The trustees of the Wellington commercial travellers’ and warehousemen’s blind soldiers’ and sailors fund have received a cheque for £SB 14s from the Auckland Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s* Association, being 10 per cent, of their last charity ‘collection g _ . A man who asked a constable in Wellington for sixpence so that he could buy a meat pie was arrested and charged with being idle and disorderly. When be came before the court be was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months if called; upon.

Substantia] booty was obtained by a thief who broke into the house of Mr A. J. Rutter, of Lin wood, on Saturday, the sum of £25 in notes and £5 from a child’s money box being taken (states a Christchurch telegram). The house was completely ransacked, but the thief rejected ~a quantity of jewellery. Mr John K. Heughan, advance representative for Mr .William Heughan’s world tour, was in town to-day finalising arrangements for the' appearance here of that famous artist ■who arrived in Auckland from America by the Aorangi on Sunday last. Palmerston North. Mr J. K. Heughan, says, looks more prosperous than ever and he considers that, with the central position it holds, , it should ultimately become the commercial centre of New Zealand. “My experience on the executive committee of the New Zealand Counties’ Association'during the past two years,” said Mri’. Blackley at the annual meeting of the Hutt County Council yesterday, “leads ino to the conclusion that there are far too many counties m New Zealand; in fact, too many public bodies, town boards or boroughs, for efficient and economical administration, and the advantages cf merging or amalgamation should be considered wherever possible.” In broad daylight this week a large carpet square in a sitting room of a Wanganui hotel, as well as the hearth liug, was spirited away. The .housemaid did her usual early rounds of cleaning up and closed the sitting room door. Later in the morning one of the guests entered the sitting-room and commented on the bareness of the floor and the lateness of the year for spring cleaning.' The proprietress was then summoned, but she could offer no solution as to who had taken the articles way.