Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 27 January 1939, Page 3

Points From The News

VERDICT that death was caused by gas poisoning, self administered while financially worried was returned by the Coroner, Mr. E. G. Eton, at the conclusion of the inquest concerning the death of Alfred Rippon, a well known Masterton resident, who was found dead in the Oddfellows’ Lodge Room on Saturday.

\\7HEN Henry John Westbrooke, * aged 21, clerk, again came before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S. M. at Wellington, yesterday, for sentence on charges of theft of money, he was admitted to probation, it being made a special condition that during the period, which was fixed at two years, he should refrain from using his motor cycle. “It has been the cause of your downfall and as soon as you forget about motor cycles and get down to saving money to make provision as you get on for your own home, the better it will be for you” said the Magistrate.

» -r- •«* * often where reputable persons make one slip the Racing Committee lifts the ban,” said Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday when Oliver Francis Watson, licensee of the Lancaster Park Hotel and racehorse, owner, pleaded guilty to a charge of using the public bar of his premises as a common gaming house. He was fined £25. The Magistrate’s remarks were ■ made in reply to counsel, who said a conviction would affect Watson as a racehorse owner and debar him from attending meetings. He asked the Magistrate to consider this when deciding on ,a penalty

A BOY, David Todd Hardie, aged 10, of Mataura, Southland, >vas drowned in the. Mataura River about 8 o’clock last evening. He apparently had been playing on the riverbank when he slipped and fell into the water. The body had not been recovered at a late hour last night.

T>USHING at Mr. W. F. Curie in his ' C * / home in Wellington south yesterday afternoon and knocking him down, a young man, who had evidently attempted to burgle the house, escaped. Mr. Curie had just returned to his home with his brother when he encountered the young man. When Mr. Curie challenged the intruder he was knocked down. As far as could be ascertained nothing was stolen.

of the moulting season, eggs are becoming scarce in Wellington. A' further rise in prices of 2d a dozen for all grades occurred this week. It-was stated yesterday that a definite shortage is setting in, and further increases in prices are likely during the next few weeks. Specialgrade eggs are now retailed at 2/2 a dozen. A grade at 1/11 and B grade at 1/8.

agreement was reached when the adjourned hearing of the Dominion Builders and Labourers’ dispute was concluded before the Conciliation Commissioner, Mr S. Ritchie, yesterday. It was agreed to refer the question of wages, country and suburban work, and a number of machinery clauses, to the Court of Arbitration. A fixture for the hearing will be made when the court sits at Wellington on February 2.

A MIDDLE-AGED man, Mr John Walsh, believed to be a resident of Ohakune, died in the Wanganui Hospital last night, after having been rescued from the river below the Dublin Street bridgi.