THIRD EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 11

THIRD EDITION.

HERE AND THERE

(Press Association Messages)

The conference of the New Zealand Educational Institute at Wellington to-dav discussed a proposal that the executive should issue a statement covering; the views of the institute on the Bible in schools question. The conference decided by o-t votes to 29 that no such statement should be issued.

Charles Edward Kosister Euddiek, with two previous convictions for similar offences and a list of others, was to-day sentenced at Wellington to two months’ concurrent imprisonment on each of two charges of slygrog selling. He is the proprietor of a small confectioner’s shop which the police stated was frequented by' a rough class. Accused was on bail on a charge of breaking and entering. In the Christchurch Supreme Court, for an attempted serious oti’ence on a girl in a city right-of-way. Stanley Hiller was sentenced to live years’ gaol. .Richard Carney, for the theft of a ring, received one year’s gaol. A violent struggle occurred in Synionds street, Auckland, between Detective Alellugh and Edward McKay, a ship's steward, who had escaped from the wharf police after his arrest in connect ion with thefts on board the steamer Aiwa. McKay was overpowered and taken to the station on a lorry.