Last Look Round—

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 669, 22 May 1929, Page 11

Last Look Round —

Man Missed from Home Mr. John Gilbert, of Longbeaoh. Canterbury. has been missing from his home since Sunday evening. Fears aro entertained for his safety. -A. small lake has been drained, but without resulu —PA. No Bill Returned The jury, after deliberating for tv o hours, returned no bill against William Edward Scarlet Wilson, at tie Wanganui Supreme Court. He was charged with driving his ear while intoxicated so as to cause a death. Epsom Theft The residence of Mr. Allen M. Hume. 18 Silver Road. Epsom, was broken into and the house ransacked during last night. Goods to the value of C 2 were stolen. The house had been searched, apparently for money’. Coalmine Dispute The Shag Point coaJtnine dispute came before the Arbitration Cou r l -it Dunedin and. after informal discus sion, was adjoixrned with the suggestion that it be brought before tincourt at the ChrLtchurch sittings on June IS. —PA. Boy Falls From Horse Through falling from a horse in a paddock at Rosstrevor Street, Kami! on, yesterday afternoon. Jack Dillicar. aged 12, a son of Mr. W. W. Dillicai. of Hamilton, received concussion oi the brain. Ills condition was reported to be favourable this morning. • • • Blenheim Mutilation Trial The trial has commenced in tho Blenheim Magistrates Court, before Mr. T. E. Muunsell, S.M.. of William Henry Osgood, on a charg« that, on May "4, with intent to do grievous bodily harm to Archibald Bennie Meek, he did do actual bodily harmThe case will occupy the whole -*f the afternoon. * • • New Bank Branch With the construction of the m w Auckland Railway Station, the business area is expected to extend past the new Anzac Avenue centre in the direction of the site. The Union Bank is now having branch premises built in Brisco's Buildings, Customs Street East. These are expected to be opened at the end of Juno. The move is to meet the demand of the business community in the new area. Drainage Boards Confer At a conference of eight drainage boards in the Woodlands swamp area, held in Hamilton to-day a resolution was passed recommending rating on tlio acreage basis with six classifications. It was also decided to ask the Government to define the boundaries of the watershed, to divide the district into wards, and to give an estimate of the approximate cost which each board is likely to contribute to the main scheme. # Bank’s Gifts to Charities The Invercargill Savings Bank authorised the following endowments out of its net pnpfits: £650 to the Invercargill» PlunkeJt Society; £l5O t" the Gore branch of the Plunk' i Society; £SOO to increase the annual value of the boys’ scholarships at the Otago University; £-100 to the Invercargill branch of W.C.T.U.; £2OO to the Invercargill St. John Ambulance Corps. The total amount allocated by the bank to date is £8,500.

Man’s Many Thefts! George Robert Mincey pleaded guilty at the Wellington Police Court to breaking and -entering a house and stealing money and article** to a total value of £27 10s. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. To a charge of wilfully a motor-car, and. six charges of theft of goods and money involving £46 9s; be also pleaded guilty. Sentence was deferred until after accused appears before the Supreme Court. —P-A-