BREAKING OF LIGHTS

Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 10

BREAKING OF LIGHTS

YOUTHFUL HAWERA OFFENDERS. MAGISTRATE ISSUES WARNING. A warning that he would inflict severe penalties on future offenders was given by Mr. W. A. Woodward, S.M., when admonishing and dismissing two youths for breaking electric light globes in streets in the Hawera Children’s Court yesterday. The habit of breaking street lights has become rather prevalent at Hawera recently, it is understood, and a number of complaints have been made. Mr. Woodward warned the two offenders yesterday and said that in future he would heavily penalise those caught. OKAIAWA TENNIS CLUB. HANDICAP SINGLES PLAY. The results of the second round of the Okaiawa Tennis Club’s handicap singles are:— Women: Miss R. Williams (13) beat Miss Elsie Ward (30) 50—41, Miss Jean Williams (24) beat Miss N. Hemsley (28) 50—47 Miss B. Evetts (21) beat Miss B. Green (12) 50—48, Mrs. Evetts (13) won from Miss D. Corbett (22) 50—41, Miss Delia Good (owe 12) lost to Miss J. Joyce (4) 49—50, Miss D. Robertson (21) won from Miss V. Ward (30) 50—40, Miss E. Williams (scr.) won from Miss E. Bridgewood (28) 50—44, Miss R. Blair (26) forfeited to Miss Edma Ward (25). Men: F. Tilley (15) lost to H. Evetts (3) 55—60, R. Robertson (9) lost to J. Collins (16) 51—60, E. Oldfield (28) won from T. Houlahan (26) 60—53, L. Newman (26) forfeited to C. Blair (16), B. Houlahan (26) lost to W. Good (owe 15) 46—60, D. Johnston (owe 10) forfeited to W.’Martin (18). OKAIAWA SUNDAY SCHOOL. PRESENTATION OF PRIZES. At the Okaiawa Union Sunday school concert and prize-giving on Wednesday night the following were presented with prizes:— Dux of school (Mrs. Green’s special prize): Nellie Hemsley. Senior girls: Jean Williams 2, Maude Christiansen 3. Senior boys: William Shearer 1, Frank Wards 2. Intermediate girls: Poppy Nelson 1, Gena, Thomas 2, Peggy Cran 3, Maida Green, Marjory Watts, Areta Rakena, Jean Way. Intermediate boys: Douglas Robertson 1, Derrick Bridgewood 2, James Cran 3, Kenneth Shearer, Alan Tong. Junior girls: Nellie Walsdorf 1, Betty •Williams 2, Joan Bridgewood 3, Jean Nelson, Esme Thomas, Phylis Poulsen, Betty Christiansen, Doreen Watts, Sarah Rakena. Junior boys: Brace Green 1, Albert Stampa 2, Donald Watts 3, George Stampa, Otena Rakena. Primary class: Lionel Robertson 1, May Biggs and Mary Biggs (equal) 2, Eunice Polson 3, Irene Guy, Walter Stampa. Kindergarten: Fred Taylor 1, Glynn Robertson 2, Kathleen Nelson 3, Claude Poulsen, Rua Rakena, Margaret Thomas, Frank Butcher, Nigiel Butcher, Kouri Nuku, Elsie Biggs, George Lindsay. CIVIL CASES HEARD. HAWERA COURT SITTINGS. Judgment for plaintiff was given by Mr. W. H. Wodward, S.M., in the following undefended civil cases at the Hawera Magistrate’s Court yesterday. H. R. Kemp v. F. Greenhanks, £l3 9s (£2 18s); Guy Hardenbury v. M. Joyce, £3 5s <£l 3s 6d); J. W. Lash v. William Pine £lO 3s 6d (£2 6s); F. C. Binns v. Massey Hori, £1 5s (19s); Para Rubber Co. v. L. A. Gower, £l3 16s 7d (£2 14s). On judgment summonses G. P. Anderson was ordered to pay Goldstone and Patterson, Ltd., £4 14s 6d, in default four days’ imprisonment; Tommy Broughton was ordered to pay Cut Rate Providers, Ltd., £6 4s 6d, in default six -days’ imprisonment. J. S. Hamilton was ordered to pay the Vacuum Oil Company £2 5s Id, in default three days’ imprisonment, and to pay M. J. Dolan £5 19s 6d, costs 15s 6d, in default six days’ imprisonment. Hamilton was allowed seven days to pay the first claim. GENERAL ITEMS. Croquet Contests. On Tuesday afternoon a team from the Hawera Croquet Club motored to Stratford to meet the Avon club’s team in the semi-finals of the Campbell Cup. The Avon club won, play resulting as follows, with Hawera players mentioned first: Mesdames Bull and McKay 26 won from Mesdames Jenkin and Collingwood 24; Mesdames Winks and Stevens 17 lost to Mesdames Lampsheer and Alger 26. Avon had 9 points in hand, thus winning by 16 points. Miss M. C. Power accompanied the Hawera team to Stratford. The English croquet players, Colonel Du Pre, Ward-Petley and Poulter, and Captain Hartnell (New Plymouth) paid a visit to the lawns during the afternoon, being guests of the club at tea. Kneecap factored. Miss A. Dolan, Hawera, fell heavily on the footpath in Union Street yesterday and fractured her kneecap. She was admitted to a private hospital, where she is progressing satisfactorily. POWELL AND MYRNA LOY. SUCCESS IN ’’EVELYN PRENTICE.” William Powell and Myrna Loy, who “teamed” in photoplays of the mystery type, and have won immense popularity in varied forms of this drama, are reunited in a film entirely different from anything they have done in the past in “Evelyn Prentice,” a vivid production which begins a two-night season at the Hawera Opera House to-day at 2 and 8 p.m. It is the drama work of a great criminal attorney, who, through an amazing trick of fate, finds his own wife enmeshed in the tangled maze of motives and evidences in which he is struggling to save a woman’s life. Powell plays the amazingly clever criminal attorney whose feats before a jury and whose brilliant coups make him a legal sensation. Miss Loy plays the society wife, who, through a mis-step, finds herself linked to a murder case in which her husband is defending another woman. Suspense runs high, and an amazing denouement solves the mystery with a surprise the audience, as a twist of evidence gives the sensational case an entirely new aspect. Thrills and comedy, mystery and suspense, keep a rapid fire succession in the fast-moving drama. Powell is masterful in his impassioned plea to the jury, and Miss Loy, amid lighter moments, has several poignant scenes. Little Cora Sue Collins, as the child of Powell and Miss Loy, adds to laurels ) already won in “Queen Christina,” and the rest of thggagt j§ lyeh. ahgsgm