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Northern Advocate, 23 July 1938, Page 6

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rB level of the Waipaoa River, Pcv-1 erty Bay, rose last night to within a few inches of the top of the floodbanks in the neighbourhood of Waerfoigahika. It receded again quickly after the peak and offered no further threat to farm lands over the major portion of the Poverty Bay flat. * * <! ‘f THE tug Frosty Moller, formerly the; Bluff Harbour Board’s Southland, lias arrived at Shanghai. Cabled advice to this effect has been received by H, L. Tapley and Company, who acted as Invercargill agents for the Vessel, from Captain E. A. Potter, of the Moller Line. Captain Potter added that the tug performed more than satisfactorily in the section of the voyage from Thursday Island to the Chinese port. -7s it « ■;-#P

|3? was stated yesterday afternoon * that there was nothing farther to ‘ Report regarding the dispute which resulted in the two steam trawlers. Futurist and Nora Niven, being held up ft. Wellington. An indication was given, however, of the possibility of Ige trouble being settled by today. * * VHE Nightcaps Miners’ Union is dis;l satisfied with the decision of the . National Disputes Committee, which lieard the dispute between the union aftd the Linton and Other coal comfianies. The president of the union, Jfcr.L. S. Edihond, said last'night that tile union would meet on Sunday to sis£ttsa the committee's decision.* "Die men are’ hot going to take it sitting down,” he said, “because we consider that questions that were not under ffispute were dealt with.” HTITH the cessation of rain and the .;V advent of mild weather, possible danger to flooding in Hawke’s Bay has been removed. The Napier-Taupo and Napier-Wairoa roads were again open yesterday. 000* inquest was held last evening, at Dargaville by the district coroIter, Mr J. A. McLean, into the death Qf ia single man, William Moore, aged st) years, who for about 12 months had been living with the Maoris at Oturei, near Aratapu. A verdict was re-, turned in accordance with the medial evidence that death was due to fieart failure. .* * * * DESCRIBING the prisoner as more •f stupid than anything else, and a man who had slipped into crime through bad habits and laziness, MiJustice Johnston sentenced Edward Charles Young, aged 4.4, labourer, lo 18 months’ imprisonment with hard • labour, at Palmerston North yesterday, for breaking and entering a warehouse by night and stealing a safe and its contents. The contents of the safe were valued at £446. Maurice Lucinsky, aged 23, found guilty as an associate of Young, in the same crime, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment With hard labour, to be followed by six months’ reformative detention. | * * * * IT was stated yesterday by Mr C. J. L. * White, counsel for Eric Sandagger Parks, found . guilty of the Henley murder and sentenced to death, that fie intended to lodge a petition for the reprieve of Parks with the Executive Council. >:• v * * ■; the theft of benzine, oil’, motor car and truck parts, to the value of £SB 12/6, Arthur John Haslam, a married man, of Naumai, a vegetable hawker, elected to be tried summarily at the Magistrate’s Court, Dargaville. yesterday. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Dictators in the phair At least one organisation in New Zealand boasts a dictatorial president. At the annual president's night of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’s Association recently the immediate pastpresident, Mr. R. E. Voller, characterised one president as a “Mussolini,” another as “the greatest autocrat that ever occupied the presidential chair.” and another as “having done things and obtained permission from the. association afterwards.” After stating; that yet another president was still j arguing that black was white, ho went os to say that the present presi-j dent was secretly studying HitJer-istic { tactics. He finally admitted that he I -himself had been compared with “Bob Semple.” Apparently ire only thing lacking in the association mow was a . president fashioned after Stalin, said the next speaker.