LOCAL AND GENERAL

Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 13

LOCAL AND GENERAL

-liio treatment of bobby calves when being collected for the freezing works was again the subject of a prosecution in the Police Court, New Plymouth. ’ Percy John Northcott, a lorry driver, ■. collected the calves and placed them on ; a truck at Opunake, expecting the i train to leave the same afternoon, j However, the train did not leave till ' about twenty-four hours later, and ’ |.Northcott was charged by the agent I of the Society for the Prevention ol ; Cruelty to Animals with not supplying I the calves with nourishment, lie was convicted and ordered to "pay costs. The steamer Waipon Maru, winch was sold by the Union Company to the Japanese, put back to Auckland last night for repairs to its circulating pump. This is the second occasion in six days that this vessel has returned to Auckland in distress. She originally left Auckland on August 14 for Newcastle and Manila. On August 17 the | vessel put back for bunker coal, and ' resumed her voyage next day; On the present occasion the vessel was USD miles _ west of North Cape, and was experiencing boisterous weather when the accident to the pump occurred. Owing to the rough weather repairs could not bo effected at sea. The vessel expects to resume her vovago on Friday.