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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 15, 17 January 1918, Page 8

Four boys under the age of 16 years ■ appeared before Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M., at the Juvenile Court'to-day to •answer charges of possessing and;,, firing air guns' in and about the city; One of them was very favourably reported on by Mr. J. Dineen, Probation Officer for Hhe Education Board, but the others were also concerned in a series- of serious charges. These last boys were firing air guns in a backyard, when another boy, passing along the footpath, stopped at a hole in the fence to see what was going on. Either by accident or design a.pellet found its way to that particular hole and struck the boy in the centre of the forehead, and penetrated the skin., Fortunately no serious harm was done, though it w&s only a matter of chance that the lad was not blinded. AH four' rifles were confiscated. Some heavy wheat crops in the Oamaru districts (the Mail reports) have been very badly flattened by rain. .The . change in the weather will delay the ripening of wheat, and it is now doubt- ' ful if any threshing of this cereal will be done this month. Most of the earlysown oats have already been cut, and some threshing has been done. The first sample of new oats has come en tho market. It is of the new Buakura variety, and is pronounced the best sample of that variety yet .seen here, but the yield was nothing to boast of, the average being 50 bushels per acre. A sample of malting barley.also came forward, and can only be pronounced of fair average quality, the crop having been cut rather early owing to the ravages of . the , caterpillar . pest, which is reported as bad in some places up the Kurow line. A sample of Cape barley submitted is pronounced jreally good. ' :