TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22326, 28 July 1934, Page 15

TELEGRAMS

(Pee United Press Association.) AUCKLAND. July 27.

At the judge’s direction, the jury In the Supreme Court to-day acquitted Gwendoline Bishop, aged 47 years, of complicity in the counterfeiting of silver coins to which her husband and ’son have pleaded guilty. FEILDING, July 27. A resolution in favour of sending a delegation of meat and dairy producers with a Minister of the Crown to Great Britain with power to act in the matter of a decision on the levies on quotas was carried at a meeting of the Wellington Provincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union. HAWERA, July 27. Miss Jean Batten arrived this morning from New Plymouth and was given an enthusiastic welcome at the aerodrome. She was the guest of the Rotary Club at a luncheon and was made a temporary member, A round of social engagements has been arranged, and Miss Batten will be the guest of the Hawera Aero Club at a dinner. WELLINGTON, July 27. Representations on behalf of the manufacturers of New Zealand-grown tobacco were placed before the Minister of Customs (Mr J, G. Coates) to-day, and consideration was promised. Dennis William Driscoll, in business as a printer, was to-day fined £3 for printing a doubles chart. William Alexander Thompson, aged 24 years, a labourer, and Charles Archer Bryant, aged 4G years, a salesman, were each sentenced to reformative detention for a period not exceeding three years to-day on a charge of obtaining £4O in silver by a false pretence—a cheque purporting to be signed by a pawnbroker—from C. E. Torrington. Southern Colledge, a teacher of dancing, was fined £lO on a charge of selling liquor without a license and was ordered to pay costs on another similar charge. GREYMOUTH, July 27. Thieves broke a window in the Greymouth Trotting Club’s grand stand and stole a small quantity of liquor from tne members’ room. ASHBURTON, July 21 R. W. Wightman, a county councillor, was fined £5 and costs (19s) for having exposed licr-iufocted sheep for sale. The defendant said he purchased the sheep in Blenheim, whore they were inspected and passed. They were 40 days on the road. He had bought 20,000 sheep this year and dipped 12,000. The defendant had twice previously been charged with similar offences. INVERCARGILL. July 27. The omission of the words “ approved for universal exhibition ” in two picture advertisements of the film “ Going Gay V led to the prosecution to-day of the

manager of the Regent Theatre, who was charged with advertising the picture without including notification as to the nature of the certificate .ssued by the censor. Mr Gordon Reed, who represented the defendant, said that though the facts wore admitted a formal plea of not guilty would be entered, for I* was intended to attack the regulations, which, he contended, were ultra vires and invalid. The case was adjourned till next Wednesday.