LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16496, 31 July 1924, Page 10

LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, lost night. A strongly-worded protest against Sir M. l'omnre’s allegations regarding the existence of a fruit ring has been sent to the Premier by the .Auckland Fruit Importers’ Association. It expresses resentment against Sir Maui s statementto the effect that fruit was too expensive owing to its scarcity and a fruit ring. The Association asks the Premier to either make the Minister withdraw the accusation or withdraw it with a suitable apologv. WELLINGTON, last night. “He has been singularly unfortunate in the choice of his friends and has mixed with people whose mode of living has had a bad influence on him. Late hours and indiscriminate drinking and an attempt to rival the fast set in the matter of clothes has been his ruin, as it has been of many before him.” Such was the explanation tendered at the Wellington Police Court in extenuation of a series of thefts committed by Wilfred Albert Wontton, an employee of the General Drapery Business. Accused adopted an ingenious method. When he sold cloth to a friend he cut olf several yards for himself and afterwards collected the material. Sentence was deferred.