HERE AND THERE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 8

HERE AND THERE

(l.’.A. Messages.) Prisoners were sentenced in the Christ - church Supreme Court to-day. lan Lochland Shaw, 22, who pleaded guilty to attempted rape, sevefr years’ gaol; Jack Harrigan, 28, for indecently assaulting a male, live years’ imprisonment.

No further evidence will lie heard by (lie Customs larill Revision Commission alter May 31. Persons making representations to the commission should (liciefotv communicate with llm chainman of the commission before that date. The commission has amassed very lengthy evidence upon various of the Customs Tariff, and it is expected that the date proscribed for the submission of the report, June 30, will require to be extended. Allegations of local unemployment were made at a meeting of the Pahiatun branch of 'the Labor Party, wlpch carried a resolution that it- “views with alarm the number of unemployed in Palliating and contends that the Covenimoiit’s promise of relief work at. Mount Bruce has nut. been carried out.’’ The meeting urged the importance of an iin mediate start being made at trade union rates of pay.

“During u comparatively short period the prisoner committed a fraud on the public by asking them to invest in shares, and he has succeeded in taking away some £5000,” said Mr. Justice Adams at Christchurch to-day, in sentencing tfcorge Cecil Ncild to four years’ imprisonment. Xeild pleaded guilty in the Lower Court to a charge that at Ashburton lie received from William Coorgo Pryor the. sum of £IOO, requiring him to pay it to Thomas Mcßae Clark, and fraudulently omitted to account for it.

A warning case of having failed to enrol ns an elector was hoard at Wellington 10-dnv, Louisa Eucns being convicted and ordered to pay costs.