HERE AND THERE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 11

HERE AND THERE

Rugby Entries Entries foa* the Auckland Rugby Union’s senior competition will close at 5 p.m. to-day, and for the junior grades at 5 o’clock on Tuesday. * * * Opium Smoker Fined Lee Bing, for being in possession of opium, was fined £25 at the Otaki Police Court. All Wong, for smoking prepared opium, was fined £l3. —P.A. Body in Harbour The body of Frederick Golding, aged 66, was found yesterday in the New Plymouth Harbour. lie disappeared from the Newton King wharf about 1.30 a.m. on April S. —P.A. Profit From Transport “The final figures are not ready, but I believe I can go as far as to say that this year the tramway and bus system will show a small credit,” Mr. J. A. C. Allum, chairman, told the Transport Board yesterday. He promised that a statement would be given the board at the earliest possible moment. Maori Boy’s Death The death of a five-year-old Maori boy, of Otaki, occurred in the Palmerston North Hospital. The lad was admitted suffering from lockjaw. It was considered necessary to inject an anti-tetanus serum, but the body was too rigid. The boy died under an anaesthetic. —P.A. School Ablaze A fire which broke out shortly after 9 a.m. yesterday in the Old Grammar School Buildings, Symond? Street, I severely damaged a locker before it was extinguished by the City Fire Brigade. The building, which is occupied by the W.E.A. and by the Seddon Memorial Technical College, is insured for £15,250 with the New Zealand Insurance Company. Salesman's Thefts “Accused has taken down everyone' he met,” said .the probation officer, of John Herbert Tonking, aged 28, d salesman, who pleaded guilty at Christchurch to 10 charges of theft and false pretences in connection with the sale of cutlery. He was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. Counsel said the man had been sent out from England by his relatives to pick up in health. —P.A.

Stolen Silk In the Wellington Magistrate’s Court Grange and Sons, Ltd., claimed £sl 12s 2d from the Union Steam Ship Company or the Wellington Harbour Board as a result of the disappearance of a case of silk transhipped at Sydney into the Maheno. For plaintiff it was stated that the two defendants were being sued as it was not known who was liable for the loss of the case. (Proceeding).—P.A. Bookmaker Fined £35 After pleading guilty to a. charge of loitering in High Street, Dannevirkc, ' for the purposes of betting, William ! Joseph Donovan, tobacconist, was yesj terday fined £35 by Mr. J. Miller, S.M., ! The police stated that Donovan’s chief j business was betting, and they be- ; lieved he was an agent for a big book--1 maker. The magistrate declined to accept the ; plea of counsel for defendant that Donovan was a silver bettor, in view of the fact that over £SO was found | on him aftei* his arrest. * * * Painter’s Shop Ablaze Fire broke out early yesterday !in the shop of Mr. R Wooster, pain- ! ter and paperhanger, in Queen Street, I Blenheim. The brigade made a good save, although the outbreak occurred j close to a large quantity of oils and paints. The contents of the shop were i insured for £SOO in the Phoenix Office. The loss is estimated at £IOO. The ! premises are part of a. block of shops owned by Air. W. C. Nicholson, of Palmerston North, the whole of which i was/ insured for £1,500 with the London and Lancashire Company. Dam- ! age to the building is estimated | roughly at £SO.—P.A. Cattle Expert Returns “The number, the quality, and the way they were brought out was an eyeopener to me,” said Mr. J. Ogilvy, prominent New Zealand cattle expert, and judge at three New Zealand Royal | Shows, who has returned by the Ulimaroa after having attended ] the recent annual Royal Show at Sydney. "Though he referred particularly to the Shorthorn and Hereford breeds, Mr. Ogilvy is interested personally in the Aberdeen Angus breed, which is now being regarded ; very favourably in Australia. He was disappointed at the numbers on show, j but examined a consignment of 21 , head which the New South Wales Government had imported from Canada. ! Of these, the bull Glencarnoch Revolui tion was the best specimen of his kind | Mr. Ogilvy had ever seen.