The News

Northern Advocate, 11 January 1938, Page 9

The News

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CHARGED with obtaming'sustenance vy , money and supplementary rations of a total value of £BG/13/9 from the Labour Department by furnishing false declarations of income, Glennard Ashley Parker appeared before Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Auckland Police Court yesterday, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being fixed at £IOO.-Spec-ial.

AUCKLAND’S waterfront was extraA ordinarily busy yesterday. Thirteen large overseas ships and two coastal vessels made up the contingent. It was indicated that a port merchant gross tonnage record would be achieved, but the receipt of information that the Rangitane had been delayed from leaving Tokomaru Bay offset the calculation—Special.

smoke coming from the home of Mr E. Croskery, three young men going home at midnight on Saturday investigated and found a child sleeping on a smouldering bed, says a Gisborne message. The other occupants of the house did not know of the danger and were aroused only when the young men entered the room and took the child to safety. The fire was easily extinguished. —Special.

M ANY applications have been received by the Government for financial aid toward the purchase or development of sports grounds, and for the erection or completion of swimming baths in outlying districts of the Dominion. The Minister of Internal ,Affairs, the lion. W. E. Parry, said that a large percentage ot the applications had been made following the passing of the Physical Welfare and Recreation Bill.—(P.A.)

* * * * A PARTY of Victorian businessmen and farmers is to make a tour of New Zealand in March, with the object of furthering the spirit of goodwill existing between the two countries, according to Mr Harold Clapp, Chief Commissioner of Railways for Victoria, who arrived from Sydney by the Mariposa on a fishing holiday visit to the Dominion. —Special.

pERSONAL property valued at £IOO was stolen when burglars ransacked the homo of Mr A. Jenkins, who, with Ins wife and family, was away cn holiday at the time, says a Wellington message. The scene which greeted him on his return was, to use his own words, “simply appalling and really had to bo seen to be believed. The whole place had been turned inside out.” Mr Jenkins is well-known both as a physical culture expert and as a wrestling referee. —(P.A.)

piGHTNING and thunder, with very heavy rain, were experienced at, Paraparaumu yesterday, and there was an exceptional fall of hail, which damaged gardens extensively. The hailstones were about the size of bantams’ eggs, and campers under canvas had an unenviable experience.— (P.A.)