In the Supreme Court, Palmerston North, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in a charge of negligent driving, so as to cause death, preferred against Frank Lawrence Farr. The charge was the sequel to a fatal motor collision at Bunnythorpe in the early hours of the morning of December 1. Farr was the driver of a bus bringing dancers into town when it collided with an elderly man named Jeremiah Brosnau. A doctor was summoned, and pronounced Brosnan as apparently none the worse of the accident, hut he was found in an unconscious condition later at the factory where he worked, and he died on admission to tho hospital from a fractured skull. An indifferent actor pestered the manager for a. letter of recommendation. To get rid of him the manager gave him a letter to another manager. .The communication read; "The bearer plays Macbeth, Hamlet, Shylock, and billiards. He plays billiards best;”
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Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 7
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155Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 19787, 10 February 1928, Page 7
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