Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 2 October 1936, Page 6

Points From The News

TT is now feared that the prisoner who escaped from' the Waikune camp on Sunday, John William Graves, may be lost in the almost impenetrable virgin bush between National Park and Manunui. Footprints discovered on the banks of the Whakapapanui Stream, and believed to be those ot the escapee, were pointing in the direction of the bush. A prisoner who took to the bush some years ago. took four days to get out. and was in a demented state when found.—Special. •9 m m m TI/TR Thomas Armstrong, of OtoroA hanga, suffered burns on the neck, head and arms when benzine with which he was cleaning clothes ignited. His condition, reports the Waikato Hospital, is serious.—Special. inHHIS year Hamilton has had 67 frosts, compared with 66 last year. The heaviest on July 15, 15 degrees, compared with the 10 degrees peak last year. The heaviest frost on record is 16.4 degrees registered in 1929. — Special. IV|TSS D. B. Carnachan made history when she became the first woman to be electee! chairman of a technical college board. She was appointed to that post on the Sedden Memorial Technical College Board of Managers yesterday.— Special. r THE Reserve Bank returns show further activity in the financing of dairy produce. An increase of £200,000. compared with last week's figure is shown in the advances to the Dairy Industry Act. The item shown last week for the first time —advances to State or State undertakings for other purposes—-remains unchanged at £700.000. but the total on loan to the State under the two heads is £1,795,350. compared with £ 1.594,23] a week before. —Special. ■ ♦ » » CXA.RRIED from the dock screaming at the Police Court, Auckland, yesterday. Marcia Teresa Nilsson, a halfcaste domestic, aged 22, was sentenced to undergo two years’ reformative detention on one of two charges of theft. She was charged with the theft o f ‘ a fur coat, a bridge coat, and a costume frock of a total value of £3O. —Special.

npHE Mayor. Mr T. C. A. Hislop, and chairman of the various committees of the Wellington City Council, discussed a report presented at a meeting of the council by the town clerk, and decided that a five-day week should apply to all employees, with the exceptions recommended in the report. These included certain officers in the tramways, power stations, libraries, treasury, city solicitor’s office, reserves, town clerk’s office, milk department, and abattoirs. This, with the above exceptions, means working half an hour extra every day by those who get Saturday off. —P.A. \ N elderly man, Mr John Harrison. ' was found dead on Wednesday morning in bed in a bach, which he occupied in Eruera Street. Rotorua. The discovery was made by a neighbour. A doctor stated that death was due to heart failure.—P.A. of the sloops Wellington and Leith, which returned to Auckland after a cruise in the South Seas, brought back reports of the operations of Japanese sampans. One which was captured off Fiji, cut the tow-rope in darkness and escaped. A seaplane was sent out from Noumea in search of others, but developed engine trouble and had to land near the vessels. The Japanese refused to surrender. and the Frenchmen asked for a tow back to Noumea on condition that the Japanese would be allowed to go. This was agreed to, but on arrival at New Caledonia, the sampans’ crews were arrested. —Special. ,r pHE body of a Bluff resident. Mr Arthur Caldcr, aged G2, single, was found last evening hanging from a rafter in the stables of Nichol Bros , of Bluff. An inquest was held today. P.A. * * „ rpilE young man, Philip Walter Darcy Stewart, who was arrested in Auckland while masquerading as a woman appeared in the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning, charged with a theft of a motor car valued at £250, the property of Jack Herbert Luxford. He was further remanded to October 5, Detective-Ser-geant Robertson remarking that probably there would be some summary charge?, also. —Press Assn.