UNIVERSAL FISH SUPPLY

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 960, 9 March 1917, Page 10

UNIVERSAL FISH SUPPLY

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i p.m., Wm. Harris anil Dixon Bros, were each fined 5/- ami costs. Mr Beswick appeared for the defendants. - EXPENSIVE AMUSEMENT. Two youths, Henry Mcllroy and Anthony Barnes, were each fined 40/- and costs for wilfully breaking telegraph insulators, valued at 10/7 A, the property of the New Zealand Government. It was stated that the defendants had | smashed the insulators by firing at them i with a rifle. ASHBURTON. Messrs B. Galbraith and T. E. Fpfon, j J.P's, sat at the Ashburton Magis-, trate 's Court to day. Nelson Foster was fined 20/- and costs , for speeding in Tinwald. T. Doig, for j a similar offence, was fined 10/- and I costs, while the charges against John j McKay and N. Butler were dismissed j owing to lack of corroborative evidence, ; and the dates in the summonses being ; wrong. John Smith Chapman, charged with ! wilfully damaging a lock and* pane of jrlass, the property of Frank Bull, of Hampstead, pleaded not guilty, but was Hired 20/- and ordered to pav damages. Elizabeth Lyles (Mr Orbell) claimed from Robert Arthur Ward (Mr Buchanan) £2 10/-, rent due for two weeks. Defendant entered a counter-claim for £.'!, the value of vegetables he had planted. He also stated that the arrangement for the lease of the house was for two years, but he had been turned out before that time. He had been advised by Mr F. Z. D. Ferriman not to pay the rent due, as the value of the vegetables would balance the amount. Their Worships allowed plaintiff's claim, £2 15/-, and defendant's to the amount of £l. Both parties to pay their own costs.

SHIPPING CONTROLLER APPOINTED. m

Press Ast.iciatXon. WELLINGTON, March 8. The Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Marine, referring to the cabled appointment of a shipping controller, says that communications received by the Government show that the appointment has no reference to intercolonial trade, but to the respective lines trading between New Zealand, Australia, and Britain. The position is that, for Imperial reasons, the Home Government is controlling the whole of the shipping interests of tlie Empire, including the Australian and New Zealand with the Mother Country.