CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18500, 22 February 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

CHRISTCHURCH NEWS

(From Our Own Correspondent.) IN AND ABOUT THE CITY. CHRISTCHURCH, February 21. Medical Congress. The Medical Congress will conclude to-morrow, when the annual meeting of the British Medical Association will be held. To-night the doctors held a cabaret dance which was a great success. The Wool Deadlock. A conference between New Zealand Wool Brokers’ Association and the New Zealand Wool Buyers’ Association was held to-day, the object being to endeavour to arrive at some agreement with relation to the present dispute over the wool sales. It is expected that an official announcement be made to-morrow. Mr Sealey Retires. Mr G. J. Sealey, who has represented the Canterbury Education Board on the Board of Management of the Timaru Technical School, has resigned. The resignation has been accepted, and the Board to-day expressed its appreciation of Mr Sealey’s long and valuable services for technical education. Robilliard Out of Rugby. Owing to an injury to his right knee, A. C. C. Robilliard, the wellknown Canterbury and All Black wingthreequarter, has been forced into permanent retirement from Rugby football. The injury was received at Capetown during the last test against South Africa in 1928. In view of the coming tour of the British team, Robilliard’s retirement will create a vacancy that will be hard to fill. Robilliard has represented New Zealand since 1924. ’Planes for Blenheim. The Blenheim air pageant is to be held to-morrow. Nine ’planes left the city for the north to-day, one of the pilots being Miss Aroha Clifford. Question of Identity. James Smith (Mr Twyneham) was charged with disobedience of a maintenance order, before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this •morning. The Maintenance Officer (Mr P. Jones) said that there had been some difficulty in locating Smith, and defendant now alleged that he was not the man concerned. Two witnesses, complainant and another woman, would identify him. The defence was that it was a case of mistaken identity. Mr Twyneham said that in May 1918, Smith arrived in Auckland. He went straight through to Dunedin, where he went under treatment in hospital. He did not stop in Christchurch, but went straight through. He was in Christchurch till a year after that, “It is said that the defendant made payments for some years," said Mr Twyneham, “but my client says that he has never made a payment in his life. It is also said that the defendant is a rabbiter at Culverden, but my client tells me that he has never caught a rabbit in his life, and has never been further than Rangiora.” Smith was a man of independent means, and had lived at Middlemarch since his return from the war, added counsel. For that matter, he could pay the arrears in cash. The police had produced a photograph to help their identification, but the photograph was one of a group, and was very indistinct. “The defendant is said to have been wounded in the legs and to have undergone massage. My client was wounded in the legs, and also had massage,” said Mr Twyneham, “but my client says that he was not in Christchurch.” "Both the complainant and the other witness are just as emphatic that he is the man,” said Mr Jones. The case was adjourned till March 10, bail being allowed in self £IOO and one surety of £IOO. Labour Candidates. Mr H. C. Revell, secretary of the Canterbury Freezing Workers’ Union, has been approached by a deputation representing the men employed at the Islington Freezing Works and asked to allow himself to be nominated for selection as Labour candidate for the Kaiapoi seat at the next general election. Mr Revell, who is a resident of Kaiapoi and an ex-Mayor of the borough agreed to accept nomination. _ J^ rs R ’ M ’ Com bs, wife of Mr J. M Combs, M.P. for Lyttelton, who was the Labour candidate for Kaiapoi at the last general election, has already been nominated for selection again, but as the majority of the members of the Labour Party in the electorate are members of the Freezing Workers’ Union, Mr Revell has a good chance of being chosen.