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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 65, 19 March 1919, Page 8

Sir William Fraser, Minister for Public 'Works, left for Auckland by the Mam Trunk train to-day. The Hon. W. H. Herries, Minister of Railways, left by the Main Trunk train to-day for the North. He will attend the Matamata A. and P. Show, and will return to Wellington on Friday. After hearing lengthy evidence at the Magistrate's Court this morning, Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M., committed a youth named William Bannerman Rodgers to tho Supreme. Court for trial on a charge of having indecently assaulted a little girl six and a-half years of age. Bail was renewed in the sum of £50. and one surety of £50. A' second charge of common assault on another little girl was deferred until after the hearing of the / case at the Supreme Court. Messrs. Harcourt and Co. report a good attendance at their. auction rooms yesterday afternoon, when they.submitted a 6roomed house on- land 40 x 187 feet, known' as No. 96, Waip'jipa-road, which was sold to Mr. Owen Daly at £950. The other property, consisting of a 6-roomed residence on land over half-acre in extent, ■ overlooking- tho railway station, Ngnio, was not sold, and is now open for sale at the upset price. The firm recently completed the 6a]e of a family residence of 11 rooms on land having a frontago of 65 feet to'Thorndon-quay and 17 feet to Hob-<son-street. known a 8 No.. 46, Hobsonstreet; also a. 7-roomed house, No. 106, Orienetal-parade. both submitted to auction by them in February: also a 0-rootn-ed residence, No. 7, HaUwell-street.