Last Look Round

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 713, 12 July 1929, Page 11

Last Look Round

Unlicensed Radio Illegal listening-in with unlicensed radio cost K. A. Denny and John Sutton £1 and costs each at the Police Court this morning. Homestead Burned A fire at Menzies Bay. Banks Peninsula,destroyed the homestead of ‘William Menzies valued at over £4,000 and insured for half that amount. Valuable Maori carvings were lost. Early-Morm ng Outburst Stanley G. Clark and George LVn > . who woke residents of Phillip Street. Freeman’s Bay. at two o'clock in the morning recently, were each fined £ and costs at the Police Court thi--morning for using obscene language Coal Miner Missing Peter Kennedy, a married man o* 49. a Dobson, Greymouth, miner, missing. He was last seen at Tu\ lorville at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Hidog returned home on Sunday. It i> feared that Kennedy fell in the river. P.A. Probation Extended Explaining that he did not repot to the probation officer because be out of work and had no money. Ben jamin Addington Reston, 46. was convicted at the Police Court this morn ing for a breach of his probation. Thterm was extended for a further 1 months. Breaches of Shop Act Failing to close their shops at tin prescribed time. E. C. Armishaw was fined £2 at th© Police Court this morning. E. H. Merila was fined £ I and costs. Merila was fined an addi tional £ l and costs for failing to notify that he was selling smoking requisites. Fine for Faulty Brakes As a sequel to a fatality in Christchurch last month, when a man wayrun over. John Hancock, tho dri\er of th© motor-car concerned, was toda> fined 10s and costs on a charge of having faulty brakes on th© car. The police said th© condition of the car was shocking.—P.A. Found Dead With Razor An inquest concerning the death of William Dick, of Woodlands, who was found dead with a razor in his hand on June SO. concluded before Mr. W H. Woodward, coroner, at Invercargill yesterday. A verdict of suicide while in a state of temporary mental depression was returned. —P.A. Gaol For Vagrant An unkempt-looking young man. Bernard Walter Parker, was sentenced at tho Hamilton Court today to a month’s imprisonment for vagrancy. Senior-Sergeant Mathieson said the accused was a bird of passage and quite destitute. It was suspected that a bicycle in his possession was stolen. * * • Esperanto in Schools A deputation waited on the Minister of Education, the Hon. H. Atmoxre. with a view to securing th© inclusion of Esperanto as a subject of study in primary, secondary and technical schools and the university. The Minister promised to give an answgr within the next fortnight.—P.A. Valuable Sheep Killed A railway bus driven by a man named Partington rail into a mob of valuable Southdowns on the pipe bridge over tho Hutt River and killed eight. The loss to tho owner. Mr. Cottle, who had just purchased the sheep from a breeder, is stated to be. severe, the value running into sonic hundreds of pounds.—P.A. Failing to Clear Gorse Failing to clear noxious weeds from their Takapuna property, J. H. Ashby and Mrs. M. Williams were each fined £1 and costs at the Police Court this morning. The actions were brought by the Takapuna Borough Council (Mr. Inder) and related to the removal of gorse. The case of J. F. Pullen, who said that his 23 acres of land would cost too much to clear, was adjourned in order that defendant might make some arrangement. * * * Fewer Born in June A Gazette notice shows the total of live births registered for urban areas amounted to 958, as against 1,149 in May, a decrease of 191. Deaths in June were 567, a decrease of 28 as compared with the previous month. Of the total deaths, males contributed 319. and females 245. Forty-nine of the deaths were of children under five years of age, being 8.64 per cent, of the whole number. Thirty-five of these were under one year of age.—P.A. No Land Returns The firm of Turner Brothers was fined £5 and costs for failing to furnish returns of lands at the Police Court this morning. W. R. Campbell was fined £3, J. O’Sullivan £2 10«, and New Zealand Picture Supplies. Ltd.. £2 and costs. Mr. Hubble, who prosecuted, said that there was no suggestion that defendants were trying to defraud the Government. It was only that their neglect led to a great deal of inconvenience Poor Steamer Service The Dunedin Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter to the Union Steamship Company protesting against the dislocation of the passenger service between the South Island and Melbourne occasioned by the withdrawal j of the Manuka for overhaul. The letter states that this creates a serious position as regards the southern | portion of the Dominion. It was I thought the compny would mke an effort to maintain the service, which is i already suffering from an irregular I and infrequent timetable, as the company is aware that efforts are being made to establish an improved service | between New Zealand, Melbourne and | Hobart, and while the temporary cancellation of the service at any time Is detrimental to the advancement of this portion of the Dominion, it is especially so at this time.