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Dunstan Times, Issue 3147, 11 December 1922, Page 8

One or two members of tTk- Pieton Hoad Hoard. assuming (be role <rf amateur detectives, appear to have been making miieli ado about nothing (relates tile .Marlborough Kxpress). It seems that a montli or so ago a motorist who was speeding Pit-ton wants si ruck a post am! rail fence near Tua M arina and knocked a post over • and ripping off one of bis footboards. incidentally. I'ivcr since, the board, workin;: on one or two small bub nneeria:n clues, lias been Irvine- t (1 discover (be identity ot (be culprit. It was rev ported bv settlers that i li<‘ car's number was' such and such, but when Ibe Awatere County Council was asked lor (be name ot the owner it transpired! that tbc man no longer owned tbc car. v bile tile description of tbc car supplied by tbc county clerk was not consistent with tbe reported make of tbo car wbieb was responsible lor tbe trouble, Tbe board at its last meeting admitted itself defeated. Tbe inspector (Air Iv .1. (iiidley) consoled tbe member's by telling tbem tbai (be full repairs to tbc fence did not cose more (ban .‘is! He bail used one old post, worth about eighteen pence, and tbe. w bole job bad taken about an hour s laltor.