COURT CASE AFFECTED
ACCUSED UNABLE TO TRAVEL
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Auckland is completely cut off from the north by flood waters, which have blocked both road and rail. Trains attempting the journey have been forced to return to their terminal points. I The road conditions, it is reported, are improving, and detour routes may soon be usable.
One effect of the loss of communication was that the trial at the Supreme Court of two men accused of. sheep stealing could not proceed. Fourteen police witnesses and a detective coming by train to Auckland yesterday had to return to Whangarei, but the detective telephoned to Whangarei first and booked reservations on the steamer Claymore for Auckland. He and the witnesses got on. board but the two accused men arrived on the wharf to find the ship full and they were unable to" get a passage-even though they offered to do the stoking. Today the accused were still in Whangarei while the witnesses waited in Auckland., . -' • ■ • . •
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Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 10
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