NELSON NEWS
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
NELSON, 21st August. Tho Richmond Borough Council's newsteam road roller, of British make, is to be delivered on Monday. The makers are Wailis and Steevens, of Basingstoke. The approximate weight in working- order is 12i tons.
A Ford car belonging to Mrs. M. Hill, of Redwood street, Blenheim, was missed on Wednesday evening. The Nelson police were communicated with, and on Thursday Constable M'Kie found it abandoned in Selwyn. place. The switch key was missing, and tho tool box had been torn oft' the footboard and placed inside the car, but otherwise there was no damage.
At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr. T. E.'Maunsell, S.M., William Henry Boydj aged 32, a sawmill hand employed at Rai Valley, -was charged with being found in a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-cycle on tho Wakapuaka road on Friday evening. He was fined £10, and his licmse was cancelled till Ist April, 1927. He was ordered to pay lus expeiwcx.
A first -offender for drunkenness was fined 10s by Mr. W. H. Coy: J.l'., in the Mount Cook Police Court this morning.
The Rhaftestmry Society gives about 50,000 poor children a day in the country every summer.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 46, 23 August 1926, Page 4
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