News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 22 February 1943, Page 2

News Of The Day

Labourer Injured When his left arm became caught in a hauling rope, Mr Stephen Dickey, 35, of Tamaterau, a labourer working at Portland, had the fingers on his left hand crushed as well as injuries to his right hand and abrasions from the rope to his left arm, neck and chin. HiS. condition is reported as satisfactory.

Theft of Money As a result of stealing the sum of £35, a Maori, Abraham Whare, 17, was placed on probation for a period of two years and oi'dered to make restitution, at a sitting of the Kaikohe Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. The money which had all been spent, was the pi’operty of Pua Arepata, of Tautoro.

Speeding Alleged Appearing on behalf of Ronald Ashley Duloy. a soldier, who was charged in tln* Whangarei Court today ith riding a inoior cycle in Bank Street at a speed exceeding 30 miles per hour, an army officer asked (he magistrate (Mr Raymond Ferner) that the case should be adjourned so that Duley could be dealt with by the military authorities. The borough in spector (Mr J. H. Ashton) had no objection and the case was adjourned subject to a copy of routine orders containing the promulgation of sentence being sent to the court.

$ # * Liquor Near Dance Hall Two liquor charges were dealt with at a Kaikohe sitting of the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday. For having liquor in the vicinity of a dance hall, and aiding the supply of liquor to a native in a proclaimed area, Bunny Savage was fined £3 and £2 respectively. Charged with having liquor in the vicinity of a dance hall and with two breaches of a prohibition order, Marino Maihi was fined £3 on the first charge and £2 on each of the other two. ?! * * * One That Didn’t Get Away A fish story with a new angle comes from the Ninety Mile Beach. While driving back to Kaitaia along the beach on Saturday, the driver of a truck saw two snapper carried inshore by the waves and left stranded in a few inches of water. He rushed along and collected the prizes. And one was a prize! It had to be seen to be believed—a real old grandfather. When the truck reached headquarters, the fish, cleaned and gutted, tipped the scales at 35 pounds. It is thought likely to be the biggest snapper ever seen in Kaitaia. “What a fight he would have put up on a line,” commented one fisherman rather regretfully.

Liquor Near Dance Hall

A lesser penalty than that usually inflicted on such a charge was imposed on Kenneth Archdale Stewart, a soldier. by the magistrate (Mr. Raymond Ferner) in the Whangarei Court today on a charge of being in possession of liquor in the vicinity of the Whangarei Town Hall where a dance was being held. Evidence was given by Constable W. H. Davis that ho had seen three soldiers at the rear of the hall and had found Stewart to have in his possession a partly consumed bottle of beer. After reading a long letter from a firm of solicitors the magistrate remarked that although he did not doubt (what was stated he could not dismiss the case, but in the circumstances would impose a lesser penalty. Stewart was fined £1 with costs.

“Slooker” Soldiers

“We stook to conquer” is the mqtto of hundreds of soldiers in the South Island this autumn. For a few weeks, precious weeks to the farmer with his crops to harvest, a big proportion of the South Island’s army personnel has temporarily transferred its affections from Bren guns to binders,, and from jeeps to tractors. The unit harvesting scheme has been devised as a practical solution to reconciling the conflicting demands of the army and the harvest on the man-power front. It does supply the labour needed if the Dominion is to meet its production requirements, and it avoids the ill-effects of breaking up camp units at a time when, in the interests of training and morale generally. the unit should remain as a whole. And so. states the “Timaru Herald.” for the next few weeks, when soldiers In South Canterbury are heard talking of “stookers,” the public will realise that they do not mean dive-bombers.