MARTON

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19532, 13 March 1926, Page 3

MARTON

MARTON DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL A GREAT SUCCESS (From the “Chronicle’s” Special Correspondent.) The annual swimming carnival of the •darum District High School was held in the Municipal Baths yesterday, iin r< '.-.as a gou U attendance of parents, as well as children, every seat being occupied. Mr Leon Wilson acted as supervisor and was assisted by Air A. Way, as starter, Mr T. Isles as timekeeper, and Messrs A. Owen, Al. Archibald. A. I’ales and Al. Goldsbury as judges. Following are the results:— Beginners, boys, 15 yards, class D.— N« al I, Hamer 2, Wilkie 3. Ten start-Brcast-strokc, senior, 25 yards.—R. j Aicore (3sec) and A. Duncan (2) equal I I, Al. Hunt 3. | j Breast-stroke girls, 25 yards.—First j ihcat. A?.. Hmart (3) 1. Second heat: d. Whale (1) J. Third Heat: E. Mc- ' Donald (scr) 1. Fourth heat: M. ' •Cooinbe (3) 1. Final: E. McDonald 1. j jJ. Whale 2, Al. Smaut Time 24sec. ‘ ’ Beginners, girls. 15 yards, Class C.— I ‘E. Amer 1. G. Gibbons 2. F. Hunter 3. ‘ i 25 Yards Handicap, boys, Class B.— I ! First heat: H. Parker (3) 1, R. Moore 1(2) 2, A. Goldsbury (2) ami AL Lein-j [weber (2), equal. 3. Second heat: C. | [Kelcher (3) J, K. Attwell (4) 2, A.! Dunean (scr) 3. Final.—H. Parkes 1. <Kelcher 2, R. Aloore 3. Time lb i 2.» lards, girls. Class B.—First heat: 1,. Bevan 1, V. Haughey 2, J. Whale 3. I ■ Second heat: L. Wilkie, 1, M. Smart 2, A. Blackwell 3. Third heat: Al. Cooinbe i 1. M. Harvey 2. Final: L. Bevan 1, L. Wilkie 2, AL Smart 3. Boys’ 15 Yards Handicap.—J. Jones ]

j., xxauuicap. o. uonvs 1. Neale 2. Ellis 3. •Junior Breaststroke, girls.—P. Sherrill’, B. Batchelor 2. AL Astrell 3. 15 Yards Girls’ Handicap, Class D.— D. Haughey 1, T. Aloore 2. ; 15 Yards Handicap, Class D.—P. Sherriff 1. P. Smart 2. D. Hall 3. 25 lards, boys. Class C.—A. Fletcher 1. S. Watts 2, AL Ingle 3. 25 Yards, girls. Class C. —B. Batch ielor 1. AL Attwell 2. B. Hunt 3. ■ 15 lards, girls, Class A, beginners.— A. Blackwell ], A. Gibbons 2, T. Witney 3. Irving. Junior Girls.—B. Batchelor 1. A: All well 2. Senior Relay, boys.—Kelcher’s team 1, Parkes’ 2. Gibbons’ 3. S; nit.r Relay, girls.—Al. Clarke’s taml, E. AlcDonald’s 2, Coombes’ 3. Boys’ Championship. 50yds.— IL Gibbons 1. G. Kelcher 2. Time .“<8 3-ssee. Girls’ Championship, 25yds.—E. Alcl maid 1. P. Sherriff 2, B. Batchelor 3. Boys’ Junior Relay.—A. Fletcher’s team 1. C. Ellis’ 2, C. Hurley Girls’ Junior Relay.— N. Ingle’s ieam 1. E.’’Amer’s 2. N. Kingham’s 3. 50 Yanis. Class A,’»Girls.—-E. AlcDona i ED. Haughey 2. Time 52 Lssec. Beys’ Diving, senior.—K. Gibbons 1, S. Waits 2. Kelcher 3. (mis’ Diving, senior.—Al. Attwell 1, P. Batchelor 2. Boy’s Backstroke ,15 yards, senior.— Kel< her 1, Stcere 2, K. Gibbons 3. 'lime 12 1 ssec. Girls’ Backstroke, senior.—E. AlcDonakl 1. ].. Levan 2, AL Clarke 3. Boys’ Backstroke, 15yds, junior.—A. Fletcher 1, J. Neale 2. Girls’ Backstroke, 15yds, junior.— I’. Sherriff 1. L. Bevan 2, F. Bryan 3. Ribbon Diving, girls.—L. Bevan, B. Batchelor 2. Ribbon Diving, boys.—K. Gibbons 1, Steere 2, Kelcher 3. Mixed Relay, Junior.— Attwell’s team 1, Wysocki’s 2, Watts’ 3. Mixed Relay, Senior. —AL Hunt, L. Rurgess, L. Bevan and E. Barratt .1, Kelcher's team 2, Steere’s team 3. Life Saving Diving.—C. AlcDonald 1, A. Fletcher 2. At the conclusion Albert Watts gave a line exhibition of fancy diving off ail boards and a long dive across the baths, ami was heartily applauded. Air Leon Wilson thanked the officials for their help ami hearty cheers were given for them by the pupils. MAGISTRATE’S COURT. A CCP SWF.EI’STAKT. At the sitting of the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Air. R. Al. Watson. S.M., a plea of guilty was enterdcl , by H. N. Fish, charged with unlawfully disposing of sweepstake tickets issued in Xew South Wales on the New Zealand < up. His Worship said he had some sympathy with defendant in the matter, j lie had, no doubt, been the instrument '•of the parties who initiated the lottery, but the Gaming Act did not allow porj sons to bo so engaged. A fine of 30s ' and costs 7s was imposed. Lice-infected Sheep. H. T. Whale was charged, on the in- ! formation of Stock Inspector E. A. Palmer, with exposing for sale ]ice-in-fested sheep. Tn a pen of 161 five out of six inspected wore infested. Defendant was fined 20s, with costs 10s. Heavy Traffic. ! Charged by F. R. AfcKcnzie, traffic inspector of the Rangitikoi County Council, H. Alcads pleaded guilty to having an overweighted lorry. Defendant had on other occasions kept within the regulation weight, but on this occasion had carried a few extra boxes of butter. Tn fining him 20s ami 13s costs, the ATagistrate said the fine

... : ; would be much heavier for a second | offence. Lorrymen should endeavour to j keep under weight. The restriction of | loads was for the sake of the roads. H. Collier, who did not appear, was j find £2 and costs 7s for not having a J heavy traffic motor license. Service Car Loads. | Inspector Fear charged D. Afartin i with having a passenger lorry (a scrI vice car) which was loaded over the ' i prescribed width. 1 ; Defendant, pleading guilty, pointed • i out that service car firms had been put »' to great expense in altering cars for ’ i the carrying of luggage at the back in- • I stead of the side. ’! car stressed the real menace of ’ ' wide-loaded vehicles, and intimated ’ i that requests for these alterations had ; been made early in April. I Defendant said he had not received one of these notices. I A fine of £3, with costs 17s, was im- | posed. The Speed Limit. | laid by Inspector Fear against a i man named Hurley, who pleaded guilty. The inspector’s state- • ment was that he was travelling , along Gower’s Hill, and, meeting defendant. whose service car was wider -loaded than it should be, had to drive lliis car light on to the grass. He [turned and chased Hurley to Alarton. j i Mention was made that defendant went I over the railway crossing at Bonny , (Uen at a dangerous pace and travelled at from 45 miles an hour to Alarton. • i here were no previous convictions against defendant, but a heavy pen- r alty was asked for. Tn imposing a fine of £5. and costs «. 17s, His Worship impressed that speeding would not be permitted. Defendant said he was not going ; more than 35 miles an hour, and the Magistrate informed him flint tho limit

-Magistrate informed him that the limit was 30 miles an hour, and this must be j observed. j Sheep Worrying. j, IT. T. Whale claimed from T. AV. a Kelcher £2O damages for sheep killed, injured anti worried by defendant’s dogs. ? R. .1. Aloore gave evidence that ho had offered 32s 6d for the sheep, but Whale wanted 355. He estimated the damage to the worried sheep at 2s 6d per bead. Francis AlcLean reposed that on January 2 he saw two dogs chasing the c sheep for about an hour.. J. Kelcher, a lad, son of the defend- F ant, said that on January 2 he had two v dogs to bring two cows in. The dogs c were with him when ho finished milk- 1 ing. He had never seen the dogs chas- c ing sheep. s Rameha, a Native, stated that on 1: Sunday morning, January 3, he saw two t dogs chasing the sheep. He went to the t naddoek -with a gun to shoot the dogs, \ but his wife urged him not to do so, as ( the dogs belonged to Kelcher. whom witness straightway told. AVitness and s Kelcher went to the paddock and the 1 iatter called the dogs off. ( D AV. G. Freidrich said ho saw the j : sheep on January 3. They had been € worried seriously. The sheep killed were worth, he estimated. 30s per head. ( The others w’ere reduced in value by £ about 2s per bead. H. T. AVhale said he had looked round the sheep when told of the worrying. He saw Kelcher next day. Kelcher did not approve of witness’ suggestion , that he should kill three dogs. He ( offered to kill two. ’ j Defendant said his first knowledge of J the worrying was when informed by • Rameha. AVhen looking through the sheep they found one dead, but it had evidently been dead a day or two prior j to the worrying. AVitness went through the sheep twice on the Sunday and the damage done was very small. A witness named Henderson said he saw the sheep some time after, and they did not show any effects of worrying. In giving judgment His AA r orship said there was no doubt that defendant’s dogs had done certain damage, and in fixing the amount of this he would be ’ as lenient as possible to defendant. For two sheep he would allow 27s fid .- each, £2 15s. It was not shown that the dogs caused the death of the third sheep. For the sheep injured 10s would ibe allowed and for general damages I £lO, with court costs £1 13s, solicitor’s fee £2 12s and witness expenses 12s. MARTON BOWLING CLUB • The following rinks will visit Goni ville this afternoon (including a rink , from Bulls and Hunterville): — i Allies, Stansbury, Purnell. Shine, i Way, Green, Neumann, Hunter. • i (ioldsman. Brabyn, Upchurch, Duck. . j A’oung. Stevens, Cummins, Parkes. ; Burgess, Paul, Lourie, Hamer. , ' Hunterville.—Howie, AVilson (2), - ' Lourie. ZANE GREY’S “CODE OF THE WEST” TO NIGHT AT MARTON j “Code of the West,,” Paramount's t | film version of Zane Grey's stirring | novel of the same name will be screeijs I cd at the Alarton Town Hall to-night. I It shows what happens when a flapper j meets a cowboy from the great open , ■ spaces of the AVest. The resultant roC l mancc leads to some very interesting 7 situations, develops some fast and furi--0 J ous action, flavoured with considerable ’’ | comedy, and builds to as melodramatic t | a climax as has ever been flashed upon n i the screen. The plot concerns Georgic a Alay Stockwell, a typical New York , flapper, who goes to Arizona for her e health and vamps all the cowboyslat

the Thurman ranch. In particular, she brings to bear all her feminine charms on Cal Thurman, the shy, awkward, vounger son of the family, with the result that he falls desperately in love with her and finally proposes. From that point the action takes an unexpected turn, for Georgic, with characteristic feminine persersity, turns him down, and Cal, with equally characteristic western directness, forces her, at the point of a gun, to marry him. The subsequent events involve a strange honeymoon in a lonely cabin, which is interrupted by a raging forest fire that solves the love tangle in thrilling and dramatic fashion.