The News

Northern Advocate, 26 July 1938, Page 6

The News

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r jpH E secretary reported at a meeting of the council of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association shat a ballot cil local assc-ciaiions had decided that the mlerprnvfneia! eight-oared championship and championship regatta should both be held at Wellington in the centennial year. 11)40. The council formally confirmed this decision. I * * “rpHE Court has decided that the license must go. even if a man is dependent upon it tc earn his livelihood.” said Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, after listening to a. strong plea on behalf of a defendant who was charged with driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The magistrate imposed a fine of £ls. and cancelled the license for 12 months. The defendant was John Arthur Taylor, aged 47, engineering fitter. Both counsel and the manager of the firm employing the defendant strongly urged the retention of the license, whereupon the magistrate made the observation quoted. I.: S' * * RESIDENT of Rimu. West Coast. Mr Charles Francis Mercy, aged 51, was overtaken and knocked down by a motor lorry while walking in the main street yesterday afternoon. He was killed instantly. The lorry driver was Mr Clifford Hendo. # * * * WHILE skating on the ice at Oturehua, Central Otago, Mr H. Hallfday, of Dunedin, slipped. He broke a leg, and was admitted to hospital at Ranfurly. * * * • mHE South Canterbury half-back. C. K. Saxton, who is at present touring Australia with the All Blacks, will come to Invercargill to live, immediately on his return to New Zealand. Saxton is employed by a warehouse firm. Whether he will play for Southland this season is not yet known. * * S' * TN the Greymouth Magistrate’s Court, Frederick Fletcher and Colin McSporran were each fined £lO f° r using the public library building at Wallsend as a common gaming house. It . was stated that accused were betting in a small way. « * s= * rpHE body of Mr Robert Kerr Clark, aged 75. was found floating in a dam at Clark’s Flourmill, Maheno. Otago, yesterday morning. Deceased left his home at Reidston on Sunday evening and did not return.