FOXTON

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 22 April 1938, Page 2

FOXTON

(From Our Own Correspondent.) FOXTON, April 20. Miss Molly Bewley, of Wellington, is the guest of Miss Joyce Hofmann. Mr and Mrs D. Barker, of Wellington, are visiting Mr and Mrs R. Owen. Miss C. Heath, of Purcell Street, was admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital on Sunday night where she underwent an immediate operation for appendicitis. Her condition is satisfactory. Mr W. L. -Rockstrow, of Avenue Road, New Plymouth, was a visitor to Foxton on Faster Monday. Mr Rockstrow is the youngest son of the late Dr. and Mrs J. F. Rockstrow, and was born in Foxton on March 25, 1883, in tho house occupied by his parents and situated on the section in Avenue Road, on which the vicarage now stands. At, the monthly sitting of the Foxton Magistrate’s Court, presided over by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. J. S. Shorthouse, licensee of the Post Office Hotel, pleaded guilty to a charge of selling liquor after hours and A. R. Fvans to a charge that ho was found illegally on the licensed premises. The licensee was fined £5 with costs ICs and Fvans £2 with costs 10s. V. C. Betty and J. Aldridge, charged with being found illegally on the licensed premises (the yard) of the Manawatu Hotel, were each fined £2 with costs 10s. A. F. Lumsden and B. Cameron, charged with being found illegally on the licensed premises of Whyte’s Hotel, and who, according to the police, had not been served with liquor, were each fined £2 with costs 12rf. R. J. JiOiigdon, charged that on February 26 he drove a motor-truck on the Foxton-lliniatangi highway without being the possessor of the driver’s license, was fined 10s with costs 10s. 11. M. Chainey (Wanganui), charged with driving a ear in Victoria Street, on March 6 without due care and attention, entered a plea of guilty by letter, and was fined £2 with costs 10s. IT. Wearea and F. F. do Tourett, each charged with driving cars on the Whirokino highway which did not possess warrants of fitness, were each fined £1 with costs 10s. Pratt and Co., charged that on February 16, being the occupier of a shop within the meaning of the fihops mid Offices Act, they did fail to close the shop at 1 p.m. on the statutory closing day, were fined £2 with costs 15s.