33rd REINFORCEMENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 50, 27 February 1918, Page 6

33rd REINFORCEMENTS.

ARRIVAL AT DESTINATION. (.United Prhss Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. • The Minister of Defence has been advised that the 3r3d Reinforcements have arrived at their destination safely. MAXIMUM PENALTY. \WELLINGTON, This Da,y. A young-married man named William Samuel Beefrue, was sentenced to three months' inrareionment, the maximum penaltv, for knowingly delivering an indecent document to a fourteen-year-old girl, the daughter of hsi ladlady, -while his wife and child were away on a holiday. . heMagistrate, Mr McCarthy, said it was a deliberate attempt to corrupt the girl. MARBLE BARS. This Da.y. An important judgement, declaring in effect, that Sunday trading in marble oars and similar establishments is not was deivered in the Supreme Court by the Chief Justice. The case was an apoeal brought by the managers of three citv establishment against conviction bv Mr McCarthy, S.M., on a charge of keeping shops open on Sunday. The Magistrate found that the shops were open of necessity for the supply of refreshments to certain people. His. Honour commented: —"In my opinion therefore, the Magistrate having found that the shops were open of necessttv foT some people to be supplied with food and is the offence charged is simply that of keeping open shops and ■not selling goods, saopellants might not Sisve been convictecT, In my opinion, therefore, the conviction is wrong, and appeal* mu*t be allowed with eo cpfte.