TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19260, 26 August 1924, Page 8

TELEGRAMS.

(Peb United Piiess Association.) AUCKLAND, August 25. At tho Police Court, Charles Augustine Scandle, aged 22, pleaded guilty to nine charges of dishonesty. ' One was a charge of entering and theft at Newmarket, another entering with intent to commit crime, and tho others were of false pretences and theft, involving £24 9s sd. (hi tho breaking and entering charges accused was committed for sentence, and on the others he was sentenced to a month’s hard labour, to bo followed by reformative detention not exceeding three years. George Millar, aged 17, admitted forging a Post Office Savings Bank withdrawal slip for £3, and was committed for sentence Ho was convicted and discharged for tho theft of a bank book. A meeting of the representatives of 22 local bodies, covering a largo area around the city, decided in favour of the formation of a provincial water board to supply the districts in the suburban and outer suburban areas, including North Shore, and that immediate steps be taken to obtain a comprehensive report on a scheme for obtaining water from Lake Tempo or tho Waikato River at Arapuni. The scheme in view is estimated to cost about £2,000,000. 'the City Council was not represented at tho conference. WANGANUI, August 25. Ernest G. Kiddle, charged with carrying milk in an unclean vehicle, and delivering milk in unclean cans, was fined £l2 10s on each charge, with costs. The departmental officer characterised it as a particularly bad case. WELLINGTON. August 25. A burglar entered a private residence at Newtown on Saturday night, but although every room was disturbed he secured nothing. The intruder took two jewel cases from a cabinet, but the contents were found intact. Without leaving the box, the juyy found Charles Mills not guilty on a charge of the theft of subscriptions to the now-defunct paper Quick March, which subscriptions, it was alleged, he collected in 1920, and had not paid in. In summing up, Mr Justice Salmond said the case was not satisfactory, and he scarcely thought the jury would consider a case made out. John Edward Fitzgerald, who at one time was a member of the City Council, tho Harbour Board, the Hospital Board, and the Technical Education Board, was today, at the Supremo Court, sentenced to five months’ imprisonment. After two tnals Fitzgerald was found guilty on a charge of receiving motor tyres, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. Mr Justice Salmond said ho believed that drink was probably the cause of the present trouble. It was a matter of deep regret to ace a. man with such a public record in this position. He had spoilt what promised to be an honourable and successful life. Victor Bond was charged with forging cheques to tho value of £l2, the properly of Scott and Martindale, well-known commission agents. It was alleged that accused typed out tho cheques, signed the name of the firm, and cashed them at city hotels. The prosecution is relying principally on the evidence of handwriting expert’s. The case is unfinished.