POINTS FROM THE NEWS

Northern Advocate, 4 February 1936, Page 9

POINTS FROM THE NEWS

D UE to arrive at Hokianga tomor--1 row afternoon, the Imperial sloop, Leith, left Auckland this morning. The ship will remain in the North until ■ next Monday, when she will leave for New Plymouth and other southern ports. This is the first time for nearly 40 years that a warship has visited Hokianga. The last time was in 1898, when H.M.S. Torch went North to quell a rising among the natives. elderly man from Dargaville was among those sentenced by Mr Justice Fair at the Supreme Court, Auckland, yesterday. He was Robert Castle, 57, who had admitted breaking into a shop and stealing some articles from it. He was granted probation for two years, being ordered to make restitution, to pay the costs of the prosecution, to refrain from gambling or entering licensed premises, and to pay to his wife weekly a portion of his earnings. £JIX months’ imprisonment, 'with hard labour, was the sentence given to John Pope, aged 52, by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court, Auckland, yesterday. Pope was the man who posed as a detective at Rotorua, and, representing that money from her husband’s business was required for the purposes of police investigation, obtained it from a woman. / 'J'HE sixth Sanders Cup race commenced off Hobson Bay yesterdaj' morning, was the third to be abandoned. Aileen, Auckland’s representative, was in the lead. Little more than one round had been competed when the time limit of three hours was up. WHILE riding past the gates of the Otorohanga cemetery on Monday night, Mr Harry Shone, of Otorohanga, aged 45, a labourer, suffered head injuries. His condition. is Critical. gEAPLANES and aeroplanes have been searching the sea, north and south of New Plymouth, for the launch Mokau, which has been missing since Saturday night with the owner, Mr W. F. McLeod, and his son Angus on board. All other launches have been accounted for. J_>ENDING the decision of the disputes committee, all Huntly coal mines were working on Monday. |I>URGLARS entering the premises of Burgess, Fraser, Ltd., Hamilton, removed a motor car, together with £3OO worth of cigarettes and tobacco. They forced the front door of the building and went systematically through the stock. The car was stolen from a garage at the back. COLLAPSING in a doctor’s room, Nr Lewis Sydney Morrell, aged I 50, of 24 Collingwood Street, Ponscn- I by. a launch driver was dead before the doctor saw him. i

ACCORDING to a statement made

by the Minister of Labour and Employment, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, the legislation being prepared with a view to giving the Arbitration Court wider power does not contain provisions for a universal 40-hour week. His own view was that the shorter working week would be applied how and where it was deemed advisable.

H IS sleep disturbed by a neigh-

hour when the flood water was within six inches of the mattress, Mr John Willoughby, of Waihi, an elderly man, quickly took refuge in a tree, where he remained for two hours ufitil the Ohinsmuri River had subsided.