LATE N.Z. NEWS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16202, 27 November 1926, Page 6

LATE N.Z. NEWS

OLD MAN’S DEATH (Per Press Association.; WELLINGTON, this day. The body found in the harbor near the Eastbourne ferry wharf on Thursday morning has been iiUvntilied as that; of Con Conway, 70, who had been employed by the City Council for some

lime on the sewerage works at Knrori. He was a single ninn and had no relatives in New Zealand, lie lived alone in a bach in Aluv street.

WOMAN SENT TO GAOL.

; WELLINGTON, this day. Catherine Donovan to-day pleaded | guilty to unlawful conversion of a I motor ear and theft of meat valued at '£l His I Id, both the property of

Christopher I’iunork, The poliee story was that accused asked a man to drive'her to town, saying that, the

car belonged to her, and ho did so. She took the meat with her into a house ami did pot return. Meanwhile the owner of the ear .appeared on the seem*. Accused was sentenced to three months’ gaol for eonversion, and was convicted and discharged for the theft of meat.

j NEW PLYMOUTH COURT

| NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. ! At; the Supreme Court Ambrose Fowler- and Albert Graham were sentenced to two years’ goal on each of several charges of breaking and entering and theft- and receiving stolen goods. Albert Fowler was sentenced to «no year’s gaol with hard labor, for theft. William Fowler, for receiving stolen goods, was admitted to probation for two years. Samuel Julian was sentenced to threer years’ gaol, 'with hard labor, for bigamy. John Alexander : Owens is tc» serve five years’ gaol, with I hard labor, for indecent assaults on boys. Milton Luke Ashby was found not guilty on five charges of indecent exposure.

1 RAILWAY ADVISORY BOARD AUCKLAND, this day. 1 The Chamber of Commerce holds a conference next Tuesday with the local bodies inturested to consider the appointment- of a provisional committee to consider matters incidental to the formation of a- Railway Advisory Board, to embrace all the railways north of Olmknne, and including Poverty Bay.

DEARER SUGAR . AUCKLAND, this day. The manager of the Colonial Sugar Co., questioned in reference to the reported increase in the wholesale price of sugar throughout the Dominion on Monday, declined to furnish any information, but did not deny the accuracy of the report. APPRENTICES’ ACT AUCKLAND, this day. Mr. Rowley, registrar of apprentices in a statement to theStar, says the statement credited to him in the report of his address to the Wellingon Rotary Club that the Apprentices Act was a failure was incorrect. He said that so far as it had gone the Act on the whole had been a success. The main portion of the Act, namely the work of the apprenticeship committee and the training of apprentices throughout the- period of their apprenticeship, was so far working very satisfactorily. _ v