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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 212, 5 September 1934, Page 6

Hugh Johnston, alias Thomas Woods, aged 37, a seaman, who was caught, stealing from the Panama hotel, was sentenced to six months’ gaol at Wellington yesterday. Accused had a long list of previous convictions. The erection of a spacious exhibition hall to cost £SOOO has been authorised by the executive of the Waikato Winter Show. It will replace a large portion of the obsolete building. The floor space of: the new building will amount, to 20,1150 square feet. A youth of 19, Morris Murphy, was placed on probation at ■Wellington yesterday for two years for the conversion of a car. The car was pursued by the police and overtaken. In it were accused, two young women and another young man going home from a dance.

While engaged in inquiry work in the King Country, Detective >T. Walsh, of Wanganui, who was a passenger in a car which was being driven from Owhango to faumaruuui, met with an accident through the car capsizing over a. steep embankment. Detective Walsh received a. bad shaking and injuries to the right thigh, and. is confined to bed at his home. The driver of: the car was not injured.

The passenger steamer M.arama is now expected to arrive at Auckland from Sydney to-morrow morning—two days behind schedule time. Early yesterday morning the steamer, which had been hove to, reported that the weather was improving and that she was under way again. At mid-day she radioed that, she expected to arrive at nine o’clock to-morrow morning. She has 131 passengers. The Narbada from Calcutta also was delayed by the storm. She expects to arrive on Fridav afternoon.

A remand was granted by Mr. .T. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate's Court yesterday, when Rav Osbourne, alias .Toiiti Humphries, Sydney Clive Humphries, alias Jack Emerson, alias Kaymond Albertson, was charged with failing to comply with the terms of an Auckland maintenance .order and with being Els 5d in arrears. Senior-Sergeant Whitchouse, for the police, in applying for a remand until September 11, pointed out that accused, described as an upholsterer and hairdresser, aged 41 years, had only been arrested that morning.