Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 25 July 1938, Page 6

Points From The News

JJ'HE medical officer of health for the Wellington district. Dr. F. S. Mac Lean, reports an easing off in the number of measles cases in the district. He said that some of the larger schools had still as many as 100 children absent, but the epidemic was not now causing the authorities any concern. (gERIOUS burns to the arms, legs and face were suffered by Mr Archibald McArthur, a waterside worker, aged 63, when the room in which ho was living at a New Plymouth boardinghouse caught fire at 4 a.m. yesterday. His condition is reported to be serious. The fire was quickly extinguished, being confined to one room and a passage. * » » * J>EFEATED warnings had been given by the Court, stated Mr J. H. Bartholomew, S.M.. in the Dunedin Police Court on Saturday, when sentencing Alexander Kennedy to seven days’ imprisonment for being intoxicated in charge of a car. Accused’s license was suspended for twelve months. m • ♦ • fjpWO young men, William Leonard Jobe Healey, and Ronald Joseph Mitchell, of Palmerston North, were convicted in the Nelson Magistrate's Court of obtaining credit by fraud, and were sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. Evidence was given that to obtain credit from a clothier the accused rang him up, said it was a local citizen speaking, and that he would guarantee their accounts. They were then allowed clothing on credit. After a complaint was made to the police. £2 10 - was paid back of the £5 owing. * * * JN fine weather, and on a ground that was heavy in place-., the combined country Rugby team defeated the metropolitan team by 22 tc 10 at Dunedin. Special interest centred in the match because several of the country players are considered to have claims to inclusion in the Otago team to play Southland for the Ranfurly Shield on Saturday week.

r Hungarian table tennis players, V. Banna and L. Beliak, played a South Island team on Saturday evening, giving a brilliant display, and delighting the spectators with their highly skilful shots. The visitors were far superior to the South Island players, and they won every match. J’JiHE abolition of weekly tramway passes, which are to be replaced by 24 rides concession cards available for two weeks only, was decided on by the Christchurch Tramway Board on Saturday. No change has been made in the scale of cash fares, but two. three, four and five-section tripcards have been reduced by one ride. The changes will operate from Monday, August 1. The 24-ride cards will be available on Sundays and holidays, and will be sold as follows: Two sections, 3/6; three sections, 4/-; four sections. o/-; five sections, 6/-; six sections, 7/-; seven sections, 8/-; eight sections, 9/-. * * * * LABOURER and motor driver, George Nathaniel Maly, aged 35. ple'aded guilty at Wellington on Friday to stealing a nurse’s uniform, valued ■at 10/6, and to being unlawfully on premises in Kent Terrace, Wellington. Accused explained, the police stated, that he had visited town that day, and had become drunk. He was taken by 'a man to where the man said he could obtain board, and when he awoke he found himself without clothing. He donned the nurse’s uniform and ran to Miramar, where he obtained other clothes. Maly was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, in twelve months, a condition being that he refunded the sum of 10/6, A PLEA of guilty to a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a car was made in the Christchurch police court on Saturday by George William Gambles, a company secretary, who was described by tire police as a prominent city business man. Ho was fined £3O and had his license cancelled for a year.