FLASHES FROM WELLINGTON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18013, 25 November 1926, Page 9

FLASHES FROM WELLINGTON.

(Special to the “ Star.”) WELLINGTON, November 23. Sanders Gup Trial. For the second Sanders Cup trial last night the harbbur was ’very choppy and not suitable for fourteen-footers. The All Black alone finished, the Peggy withdrawing during the course of the race and the Wellesley' being prevented from completing the course owing to a broken gaff. CArgo Handled. The total tonnage of Cargo handled on the Wellington waterfront for the y'ear ended September 30 was 1.816,765 tons, compared with 1.635.256 tons last y'ear, an increase of 11 per cent. Inwards cargo totalled 1,055,576, as against 957.389, the principal inwards increase being:—British and foreign 28.2 per cent. Australia decreased by 45,849 tons, mainly' due to a reduction in coal imports and hardwoods. Transhipments increased from 323.084 to 387,755 tons. In outward cargo Britain and foreign increased from 125,863 tons to 138,175, and Australian by' 18.525 tons; coastal increased from 172,181 to 195.934 tons. Thefts by a Youth. “ His mother attributes his lapse to bad associations formed while he was in town,” said Chief Detective Ward in the Magistrate’s Court to-day' when Kenneth Guy, aged eighteen, an exemployee of the Agricultural Department. pleaded guilty to- the theft of £2O 18s 6d in postal notes, money' and stamps, the property of the Government. Detective Ward said Guy' was employed as a cadet from January' to November. 1925, at a salary of £2 4s a week. The money was taken from letters sent by farmers containing subscriptions to the journal issued by' the Department. The youth disappeared last November and went to Christchurch. where he obtained work with a farmer. He stole £24 from his employer and was admitted to probation for two years. Mr Page, S.M., remanded the accused till Tuesday', pending a report from the probation officer. Three Years’ Hard Labour. When sentencing Gorringe on a charge of incest, Mr Justice Alpers said it was very dreadful that a man who had a large family of children should in middle life be seized by' horrible sexual perversion and behave like a beast. The police report stated that the prisoner had been a good worker. If prisoner had lived in a sterner age the cat of nine-tails would have been given him with considerable vigour. Fortunately he did not live in such times. His Honor referred to the fact that prisoner’s family' must suffer, but held that prisoner would have to be kept apart for some time. In imposing a sentence o% three years’ hard labour, his Honor said he hoped for prisoner’s own sake that the labour would be as hard as possible that it might purge prisoner's system of some cf the filth which ran through

Damages Awarded. As a sequel to a collision between a bus and a motor-car on Jervots Quay in September, A. J. M’Gowan claimed damages against the Wellington Suburban Motor Bus Company in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Defendants did not appear. After hearing evidence Mr Riddell, S.M., awarded £25, with costs.

Chambers of Commerce Remits. The Associated Chambers of Commerce carried the following remits: — “ That except for such graduated tax as is necessary' to prevent land aggregation for the idle holding of rural lands, that the land tax be abolished and the income from the land be taxable in the same manner as income from other sources.”

“ That while congratulating the Government on its increased activity in advertising New Zealand abroad, this conference reaffirms that the needs of the Dominion demand still greater efforts and that Parliament be urged to appropriate annually such an amount as the importance of the subject dCmandtj. The conference also urges that more constructive efforts be made to exploit scenic, health and sport resources on commercial lines.” A remit to the effect that private British capital applied to the breakingin of the second-class lands of the Dominion would afford a thoroughly’ efficient solution of the question of the ability' of the Dominion satisfactorily' to absorb a largely' increased number of British immigrants was debated at length and lost.