LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 19519, 29 March 1927, Page 9

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A special meeting of the shareholders of the Ngaere Dairy Company passed the following resolution—“ That delegates be sent to Palmerston North with definite instructions to support any proposal, even to the abolition of the Control Board, having for its object the prevention of a recurrence of any disastrous policy, such as price-fixing, instituted by the board."

Edward Miller Rouse was charged in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, with negligently and dangerously driving a motor lurry, thereby causing the death of Alice Myra Morris, aged eighteen, tvhom he knocked down. Accused pleaded not guilty, and reserved his defence, being committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed in one surety of £11)0. The Native Lands Commission opened its sittings at Whakatane yesterday to consider a number of petitions from the Natives of Whakatane district praying for the return of lands con-fiscaie-'J by the Crown in 1866. Thoir case is-based in the first place on the Treaty of Waitangi, which guaranteed to them the solo undistrubod possession of their lands, and secondly that the confiscation in Whakatane district was particularly unjust in that the offence committed was the murder of James Fulloon, a half-caste Govern mont agent. For the Natives it was contended that the proper punishment for tho murder lay in the hands of the civil authorities. As a matter of tact, the murderers were dealt with by tho civil court, and several executed. Vet, though the Natives were British citizens at the time, and promises had been made that them- would be no further confiscation*, ti large area in the Bay of Plenty was confiscated, including the lands of tribes alleged to be in no way connected with Fulloon’s murder. „ i

Charles Roy Banton, a taxi proprietor, of Dargavillc, and Ivor Vincent Scoles, a printer’s apprentice, also of Dargavillc, were charged in the Magistrate’s Court, before Mr F. M. l.evieu, S M., with abducting two young Whanaaroi girls, sixteen anil ’fifteen respectively, against the will of their parents. Banton was also charged with attempting to know unlawfully and carnally a uirl under sixteen years. Scolos was also charged with abetting Banton m the commission of-the alleged crimes, which occurred, after a motor journey to Oaraavillo last Saturday week, in a» unoccupied house. Tho accused wove found by Sergeant Griffiths, of -Dargavillo, as a result of a message wiml through from Whaigarei police. The charge against Scoles was dismissed. «nd he was committed to the Sunrenm Court on tho charge of nhottinc. Banton was committed on the charcc of attempting carnal knowledge, the charge ol abduction being dismissed. Bail in each case was allowed in the sum of £IOO self and a surety of, £IOO. A search for a copy of tho Koran was one nt the h-- 71 tures of an unusual case before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., at Christchurch, veiling of a quarrel between two seamen at Lyttelton, with its results and causes.

Joseph Howard' (described as a British Malay' w«« charged that on March 24 he assaulted Tabit Saleh so as to cause him actual bodily harm. Dr Cotton said he remembered Saleh being admitted to tho hospital. Saleh appeared to be an Arabian. Gn examination he was found to be suffering from a stab in the midline of the neck. It was a dangerous injury. After hearing evidence that Saleh had been drinking and had been logged previously for attacking a man, the magistrate dismissed tho charge.—Press Association.