TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22022, 3 August 1933, Page 7

TELEGRAMS

(Per UNiiEp Press Association.)

MASTERTON, August 2

The derailment of an empty wagon on a goods train proceeding up the Rimutaka incline between Cross Creek and the Summit occurred about 7 o’clock this evening. No damage was done, but the work of replacing the truck on the line proved rather difficult, and as a result the Masterton mail train was delayed for two hours.

WELLINGTON. August 2. "This thing must stop, said Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., in connection with a nuisance that is being created at Taita by a resident using fish remnants and offal from the markets as manure. The penalty could not be a light one, he said, because the defendant flouted' the Hutt County Council after his license had been refused. The defendant was P. Walters, and the charge was carrying on an offensive trade in unlicensed premises, A fine of £ls was imposed. Vivian Arthur Dixon, aged 49, a salesman,' pleaded vuilty to-day and was admitted by the magistrate to two years probation on a charge of‘ obtaining £2l 10s from James Johnston, Ltd., by falsa pretences. As a canvasser he presented fictitious orders. He was ordered to make restitution. Stated to have 73 previous convictions between them, William Percy Old, aged 42, and bis wife, Cecilia Old, aged 48, were each sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for stealing an overcoat valued at £l, the property of Cyril Arthur Wilkinson. The coat was taken from a car in the street. , Defalcations amounting to £685 Is ad were admitted in the Magistrate’s Court to-day by Harold Percy Campbell, aged 22, charged with theft, as a servant from the Phoenix Assurance Company, and he was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was allowed in the sum of £l5O. Campbell was cashier in the company’s office. - Leslie Clifton Arthur Payne, aged 31. a labourer, who was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on charges of breaking and entering, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on the theft charge on which he elected to he dealt with summarily, the term to be served on the expiration of the sentence now being served on other theft charges. # he was sentenced to months’ imprisonment, concurrent with the existing sentences. The houses that the accused admitted breaking into are at Taupo and National Park.