TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21010, 26 April 1930, Page 19

TELEGRAMS.

(Pee United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 24. Edward Hunter Shaw, aged. 50, was fined £lO for laying totalisator odds. AUCKLAND, April 25. Poppy Day on Thursday realised £1466. There are still several large returns to come. GISBORNE, April 24. Pleading guilty to three charges of obtaining goods by means of false pretences, one charge of unlawfully converting a car to his own use at Napier, one charge of damaging a car to the extent of £2O, and one. charge of the theft of number plates, Norman Hugh Jeffs, alias Norman Proctor, aged 22, was admitted to probation for two years'in the Police Court this morning, and was ordered to make restitution of all the amounts inv.olved. The accused took the car in Napier and, drove to Gisborne, where the debts were incurred. PALMERSTON N., April 24. Erected at a contract price • of £170,000, a fine new refectory building for Massey College is almost completed, and is scheduled for occupation on May 19. Rapid progress has been made wit!, the £84,000 science block, which it is anticipated will be finished by Christmas, nine months ahead of contract time. WELLINGTON, April 24. The Association football authorities intend to send a deputation to the Educational Conference next month on the question raised at the annual meeting of the refusal of some teachers to allow the “ Soccer ” game to be played in the schools. CHRISTCHURCH, April 24. At the Kaiapoi Court this morning William Albert Parsons, of Amberley, was charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car and by act or omission causing the death of Henry Gilbert Hancock, a cyclist, aged 38. He was remanded till May 7, bail being allowed. Jewellery to the value of about £3O was stolen by a burglar, who broke a shop window in A. Kelleway’s jewellery shop in Cathedral square, between 3.30 ' and 4.30 this morning. The area is well i lighted, and the act was a particularly | daring one. CHRISTCHURCH, April 25. The sale of poppies yesterday realised £1550. It is estimated that there is £IOO more to come. Last year's total was £1067, which was then a record.