TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22519, 13 March 1935, Page 5

TELEGRAMS

'Per United Press Association)

GISBORNE, March 12. In the Police Court this morning Cedric John Bramley, aged 27, with several aliases, was sentenced to two years' reformative detention •on one of 11 charges of theft and false pretences at Auckland, Gisbome and Wairoa. He was convicted and discharged on the others. Mr E. VV. Walton, S.M., said lie would not be doing his duty if he allowed the accused his liberty. WAIPUKURAU, March 12. A largely attended meeting of the Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution against the continued collection of the sales tax. The growth in the amount was pointed to as seriously affecting the spending power. Opposition to the discrimination between city and country rates of relief pay was also expressed, but satisfaction was recorded as. to a semiprovincial adjustment of differential rates arising from the new scale. WELLINGTON, March 12. Arthur Leo Vrede, aged 52, a cabinetmaker, was fined £SO by Mr E. Page, S.M., on a charge of carrying on the business of a bookmaker. BLENHEIM. March 12.

The Supreme Court sessions were opened before Mr Justice Kennedy thU morning. The grand jusy returned true bills against David William Boniface (causing death through the negligent driving of a motor cycle) and George Walker, ex-schoolmaster (indecent assault.

Twenty schoolmasters have been recruited in Loudon for one of the world's strangest schools, which is to be opened next term at Dehra Dun, in the Indian foothills of the Himalayas. The object of the school will be to stamp out the "old school tie" spirit in a country where it is too strong. Sons of princes.and nobles will not be eligible. M A. E. Foot, once a master at Eton, has been appointed headmaster. More than 400 boys, drawn from warring sects, will be thrown together to stamp out caste and class. Some of them will travel 3000 miles to school each term —a train journey of four days.