LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 2

LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS

(P.A. Messages.) In the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon Sir John Luke gave notice of intention to introduce the Music Teachers’ Registration Bill, and Mr. E. J. Howard gave notice of Intention to introduce the Workers' Compensation Amendment Bill. Replying in the House yesterday to Mr. T. I). Burnett, the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. 0. J. Ilawken, said his department- was making active investigations into diseases amongst sheep in the South Island, and was endeavoring to minimise the losses as much a possible. Charges of having obtained money by fraud from the firm employing them were laid against Gregory Gordon Gerald Lo Hainsvvorth and .John McCormick in the Ohrist-l'hureh Magistrate’s Court yesterday; Both mcri pleaded guilty. They had been eiu - ployed as canvassers for picture rj largements, and had obtained the mor ey by putting in bogus orders. Both r.ien were admitted to probation for 12 months. An Amberley farmer, Frederick Arthur Hayward Pen fold, was charged at Amberley yesterday with having stolen 19 sheep, valued at £2B. 12s. It was alleged that the sheep were taken from a travelling mob which, had come from Nelson, and which wer»e held for a night in a paddock near Penfold’s farm. The evidence was wholly circumstantial, and after hearin g ’the case for the prosecution and one witnoss for the defence, the magistral i, Mr. Lawrv, declared that no prime, facie case had been made out sufficien t. to warrant him in committing Penfola for trial. The information v.as dismissed. “That nt> blame was attachable to anyone was the funding at the inquest ill Auckland yesterday concerning the death of William Malam Pirritt, a cripple, who die<f after being thrown from bis wheel ’ ah' when struck by a motorcar driver j. ,' ov William F. Sbaw on the evening pf July 7. It was raining heavily at the time. Deceased was being wheeled along the Great North road, New y nn, when a car touched the wheel o'/ the chair, resulting in the upsetting of. the chair. The car was travelling pjt a moderate speed. Medical evidence was that death was due to pleurisy, .jnfjirt failure, shock and general concussi,M>,.