Last Look Round—-

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 731, 2 August 1929, Page 11

Last Look Round —-

Petrol Catches Fire Petrol being taken on by e Stanley Bay bus from a. street bowser at Devon port this morning suddenly caught fire and flared up furiously. A firstaid outfit was promptly used and tha fire was extinguished before any serii ous damage was done. I Students' Officers j Officers elected yesterday for the Students’ Association of the Auckland | University College were:—President. : Mr. J. N. AVilson; woman vice-presi-I dent. Miss R. K. Walker: treasurer, Mr. i A. I’. Postlewaite; secretary, Mr. O. E. Watt. The committee will be elected i shortly and there will also be an apj pointmeiit of a male vice-president. i Golfers in Form The secretary of the Golf Association has received the following cable from Melbourne in regard to the Kirk-Win-deyer team: —“Magnificent hospitality and weather. Morpeth 72. and Ross 73, at Commonwealth, Morpeth 71 at Metropolitan. Black and Horton very steady. Resting tomorrow for qualifying round of State championship Saturday. Strongest field ever in Australasia competing for sixteen places.” * • • Bank Teller For Sentence In the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, the jury awarded Audrey Brook Taylor £330 damages for injuries received in a collision between a motor-lorry owned by the Welling von Express Company and a car in which plaintiff was a passenger. It was alleged that the accident was due to the negligence of the lorry driver. Plaintiff claimed £1.039. Police Sergeant's Transfer Before his departure to Wanganui | on transfer. Sergeant Charles Dunford. of the Newton Police, received a presentation from the staff of the station. Senior-Sergeant M. Flanagan, who made the presentation, spoke of Sergeant Dun ford’s five years’ service in Newton and expressed his regret at losing such a capable officer. Mr. David Court was present with two pipers, who played Scots national airs. Damages for Motorist Everard Vauncey Hughes, until recently a teller at the Stratford branch of the Bank of New South Wales* pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court this morning to four charges of theft from the bank, totalling £240 3s lOd. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Limited Held Up A heavily-laden goods train delayed the Limited at Taupiri this morning, with the result that the express from Wellington was nearly an hour late in arriving at Auckland. The goods train which left Huntly at 6.45 o’clock this morning for Frankton could not take the load up an incline near Taupiri and had to be divided. An exceptionally heavy frost had made the rails slippery. The delay in attending to the goods train held up the Limited for some time. Motor-Cyclist’s Claim When the Supreme Court at Wellington sat this morning for conclusion of a case in which a motor-cyclist. Desire Stephaan, sought £949 damages front James Frederick Lilley. with whose car he had collided in Kaiwarra Gorge, counsel for plaintiff announced that a settlerauit had been arrived at and asked for judgment by consent for £829 inclusive of costs. The Chief Justice ordered judgment to be entered accordingly, remarking that he was satisfied the settlement was fair and reasonable to both parties.—P.A. Fortune-Teller Fined When two charges of fortune-telling were preferred against Mrs. Ivy Bayliss, in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court, her counsel stated that defendant all her life told fortunes simply as a joke. Her friends asked her to do so, ha said, and, knowing her straitened circumstances, left some money in gratitude. Payment was never requested. The police stated that defendant was a reputed fortune-teller. She had been forecasting th© future and telling a lot of rubbish. She was fined £1 on each charge. * * * Dispute Among Scouts At a meeting called by Major W. E. S. Furby, district commissioner of the Boy Scout movement, on Wednesday, it was agreed to set up a district committee to investigate the complaints which threatened to disrupt the movement in Christchurch. Seventeen representatives of the troop committees and the scouters discussed their grievances at length. The cases of the i, scoutmasters who have been reli of their warrants are to be rev . and the assurance was given t. several accounts which have n outstanding will be met. Frost at Hamilton t Today is the coldest :i Hamilton Tor six years, 3 6.4 degree: of frost being registered at Ruakura. At sunrise the town appeared to be covered with a heavy mantle of snow. The effect of the heavy frost on th© wet reads hosed down by Borough Council employees caused scores of cyclists to fall over. Twenty-five had mishaps at the corner of Collingwood and Victoria Streets, some receiving slight injuries. L. Dent, a baker’s assistant, was leading a horse when the animal slipped and rolled on him. He escaped with bruises, abrasions and shock. * « ♦ Rowdy Fireman j A stream of oaths that he used on | the Queen’s Wharf yesterday afterj noon cost Alexander Main Baillie £2 at the Police Court this morning. J Baillie, a fireman, aged 26. of the 1 Maheno, was charged with using | obscene language. He said that he had no recollection of the offence. Mr. F. K. Hunt, fcS.M.: Drunk, I sup- ! pose. I Sub-Inspector McCarthy: More than that—fighting drunk, j According to Constable Hanna he had j arrested Baillie at the ship’s gangway. “His mates tried to get him on board J the ship and there was a general I melee.” said the constable. “I have forgotten all about it,” said Baillie.

Default of the fine was fixed at seven days’ imprisonment.