TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20870, 9 November 1929, Page 20

TELEGRAMS.

(Per United Press Association.)

ROTORUA, November 8. John Maliutu Parker Charles George Graham yesterday on three charges of breaking and entering and theft was sentenced by Mr S. L, Paterson, SM., to 12 months’ hard labour and three years’ reformative treatment. Prisoner had a long list of previous convictions. Hori Man, charged with three breaches JJ e r am . hl « M betting totalisator odds, and using his premises as a common gaming house and carrying on the business of a bookmaker, pleaded guilty to the first two charges, the third being withdrawn. On the first charge he was convicted and nned £2O and costs, and on the second he was convicted and fined £3O and costs. T , HAWERA, November 8. John Janies, an immigrant, employed as a farm labourer, aged 21, pleaded guilty, before justices at Hawera to-day, and was committed for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering the Aurora store on the morning of Sunday. October 20, and stealing £3 ss. , WOODVILLE, November 8. At a public meeting held at Woodville last inght it was announced that the Minister of Mines (Mr W. A. Veitch) had offered a subsidy of £SOO towards the cost of securing a geophysical survey by Hdentista of the Maharahara copper nejd, m the prospecting of which a sum of £4OOO has already been expended by various companies. The total cost of a geophysmal survey is expected to be about £3500, and the pubhp is being asked to subscribe £3OOO to the prospecting com£f a “V ,] he money is forthcoming, a start will be made with the survey earlv m January. J J T , rr WELLINGTON November 8. invvtinw sport Appeal Board’s first caso in Wellington was a petition by the residents of Vogeltown. a hill suburb, to force Eity Council to give them a bus eerthe tnwn h n fiTl ClPa ‘ °® ce f s stated that ii? fissH.bus services]now, on which £13,000 yearly is lost, and,'moreover the '2“*®. ls ,, n °t suitable for buses. In face of this the board refused ffie application tliemselv P ° s Ufc that reß ‘. dents could make tnemselves a special rating area for the Council? and then apply to tl,e Citv Percy Clarke, alias' Lamonte, aged 28 ment Be anr| e ri to three ™nths’ imprison? was finM d fß C a - ren , Ce e Frederick Hancock was lined £5, in default 21 days’ Imuri™ks" Deiart bre H dnS the P,l^io Wotks Department's magazine at the side of the road near Kaitoke, and steal n-^ex-plosives valued at £2 10s. Thev w£e engaged in splitting firewood in the district at the time of the offence, p.. , GISBORNE, November S Charged with the theft of a gallon of brandy valued at £3 ss, the property of ihe Cook Hospital Board, George Lawrence Evans, secretary of the bofrd. and Andrew Stewart Murray, temporary house steward, appeared before Mr P H Harper S.M. to-day and pleaded not guilty. After evidence had been heard the acs™™rcouT m ‘ ~el f<,r i ""' u » NEW PLYMOUTH, November 8. Scott s motor garage at Urenui was burnt out last night. Two large lorries and the building are a total loss. One lorry was insured for £450 in the A.P.A. Union, and the other for £4OO in the Royal Exchange. The building was insured for £125 in (lie Royal Exchange, ihe cause ot the fire is unknown, iv ir E U R TON, November 8. Wilson, of Riverside, was fined £<ii) nm] had his license cnncellod for three years for being intoxicated while in charge ot a motor car.