TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19258, 23 August 1924, Page 10

TELEGRAMS.

(Pee United Pars a Association 1 Q AUCKLAND, August 22. In tlio Police Court to-day, John K. Small was lined £SO I'or removing timber from tho Northcoto timber reserve the magistrate remarking that the maximum penalty was £IOO. George Havord, charged with being drunk while in charge of a taxi winch he was driving without the owner’s permission, and also with the theft of a ring, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on each charge. At the adjourned annual meeting of the Pioneer Club, held to-night, the following officers wore elect ed : -—President, Miss Amy Kano (re-elected unopposed); vice-presi-dents—Lady I.nke, Mrs Walter Fell, Mrs J. P. Firth, Mrs A. Newton, and Miss Lyra Taylor, LL B. Lady Osborne Gibbos was elected the first honorary life member, and was presented with a bouquet of bowers in recognition of her splendid work HAMILTON, August 22. The Farmers’ Auctioneering Company has declared a dividend of 3 per cent, on ordinary shares for tho six-monthly period. This is taken na an indication of the improved position of tho farming community, as it is the first dividend paid since the slump years. WANGANUI, August 22. A young man named Lionel Edward Mosen, who had been driving a baker’s cart for William Palmer, pleaded guilty to tho theft of £.lOl 7s lOlul, the funds of his employer. Ifo was committed to tho Supremo Court for sentence. WELLINGTON, August 22. On a charge of having brought his vessel to the wharf at, Auckland before she had been granted pratique, J. Rankinn, master of (he steamer Koromiko, was fined £lO and cost.- in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Captain Rankin© said he had received pratique at: the wharf at Wellington and Bluff. Ifo considered (hat the Auckland Harbour Hoard was partly to blame for flying tho herliiing signal before pratique, had been granted. It was stated that, it was growing dark and the sea was ehoppy when the vessel was taken to the wharf. The. Magistrate said there could ho no question as to defendant’s hona fid oh, hut ho should have waited for the proper signal before berthTNVKRCARGILL, August 21, At a large meeting of tho dairy suppliers in Invercargill, addressed by Mr Singleton, it. was unanimously resolved that, recognising that, dairy produce is meeting with increased competition overseas, this mooting approves of tho proposal to raise the grades of both butter and cheese..