TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20432, 12 June 1928, Page 13

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, June 11. Four charges of the theft of money of the firm by which he was employed were admitted by Henry Hall Webb, aged 23, in the Gisborne Police Court this morning. The accused was remanded for sentence. The amount involved is £142. Detective APLeod stated that the accused was the representative at Gisborne of a gramophone company. In 1924 Webb was a student of the Otago University, and ho and another student forged their examination papers, for which Webb was convicted and fined £lO. A 10-year-old Maori boy who forged a cheque for £5 10s and uttered it to a storekeeper was dealt with in the Child Welfare Court this morning, being ordered to receive training in agriculture at the State Farm. The forgery was described by the police as a particularly clever one. WELLINGTON, June 11. The Salvation Army Congress passed a resolution on prohibition supporting the attitude of the New Zealand Alliance. CHRISTCHURCH, June 11. A large number of applications from fruiterers were before the court to-day asking for exemption from the provisions of the Shops and Offices Act relating to the sale of tobacco and cigarettes, and also of seeds and bedding-out plants. In several cases the applications in respect of seeds and plants were granted, but in no instance was exemption given in respect to the sale of tobacco.