TELEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21040, 31 May 1930, Page 19

TELEGRAMS.

. (Per' United Psess Association.) AUCKLAND, May 30. The statement that os much liquor was sold after hours by some sly-grog shops In Auckland as some hotels sold in the daytime was made by the subinspector when prosecuting a Dalmatian named Mate Nysich for selling liquor without a license. The case was the sequel to a series of raids made by the police on such shops. The accused was fined £IOO. PALMERSTON N., May 30. In the Magistrate’s Court, Reginald Webb, by occupation a fariher, was fined £lO and his license was cancelled, for six months for being intoxicated while, in charge of a motor lorry. WANGANUI, May 30. As a sequel to a motor car being started in reverse gear in the business area of the Avenue and backing and carrying away five veranda posts and then shooting over to the other side of the street on to the footpath and striking a shop, Joseph Floyd Legge, of Gisborne, was charged with being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor car and was fined £2O by the inagistrate (Mr J. S. Salmon). WELLINGTON, May 30. A reference to hard times is contained in the report of the Fees Committee to the. Wellington Hospital Board. Out of £3005 for April only £248 has been collected, and the total outstanding on April 30 was £95,006. The board decided to write off £6581, regarded as hopeless. Stanley Everitt Cave to-day pleaded not guilty to a charge of being drunk while in charge of. a car and guilty to a charge of negligent driving. The case arose out of a collision on the Hutt road between a car driven. by Cave and a lorry in charge of a carrier named Carter. Cave was fined £2O, and his license was suspended for three * months, CHRISTCHURCH, May 30. .In the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Robert Stanley Stuckey, aged 29, Cecil Arthur Vesey, aged 21, and George Alfred Webb, aged 29, labourers, were remanded till June 6 on charges of breaking into service stations at Hornby and Belfast.

Burglars broke into the small tobacconist’s shop of James Smith, Fitzgerald avenue, last night, and took his entire stock, including hairdressing equipment, leaving nothing but two combs. His loss is estimated at £SO. Youths are believed to have been responsible. The ferry steamer Maori was over two hours late in arriving at Lyttelton to-day. She encountered heavy seas and a moderate southerly gale, and had to be eased to about half-speed in crossing the strait. A big wire rope reel was wrenched from the deck, causing damage to three motor cars.