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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 21 June 1927, Page 9

HERE AND THERE

(Press Association Messages). After two appeals to the Pensions Appeal Board and 12 months spent in the collection of evidence, the Dunedin Returned Soldiers' Association has secured recognition that an exsoldier's illness in hospital since 1021 is attributable to war service. This means not only a retrospective pension of approximately £6OO, but also provision of treatment during the whole period at the charge of the department. The tramways committee of the Auckland City Council is seriously considering a proposal to increase the tramway revenue by the abolition of concession tickets and running shorter sections.

John Wallace. Thurlow, 25, and Lewis Robert, William Knight, 25, were charged in the Auckland Police Court to-day with pillaging cargo from the holds of vessels. Accused pleaded guilty. All the goods had been recovered. The magistrate said their thefts had extended over a long period. He convicted both oh one charge, and remanded them till Tuesday in custody. Southland) ils experiencing a long spell of hard frosts, with bright, sunny days. At Nightcaps on Sunday 18 degrees of frost was recorded, on Monday "21£ degrees, and to-day 21 degrees. Several week-end episodes were investigated before Mr. Stout, 8.M., in the Palmerston. North Magistrate's Court, this morning. A youth k)f 18, Leslie Joseph Murphy, pleaded guilty to converting to his own use a car valued at over £2OO, breaking and entering a shop at Foxton and stealing two portmanteaux and contents valued at £3O, and also the theft of a stockwhip from a, drover. The police stated that the accused was a ward of the State and employed in Hawke's Bay. He left Dantievirke on Saturday secreted in a train wagon. On arrival at Palmerston North he appropriated the car from a public stand and drove to 'Rangiotu, where* running short t>f petrol, lie abandoned the vehicle. Proceeding to Foxton, he stole the portmanteaux and contents. He slept the night on the premises, and the following" morning left. At the railway he purloined the stockwhip while the owner was trucking stock. Later the, accused was apprehended. The charge of 'breaking and entering was reduced to one of theft, and accused was sent to a Borstal institute for three years. On the. oilier charges he was convicted and discharged.