VITAL STATISTICS.

Evening Star, Issue 20320, 31 October 1929, Page 20

VITAL STATISTICS.

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The vital :c statistics ■ for the mouth ;■ ended October 31 .arc as vYolloTy,Clast year’s figures being . hi parentheses ;—Births. ’H'6,>WL3i>); deaths. SO (S'*,) : marriages,. ”3 ini err expo rrr c r.u,i a ntee. The Minister of Agriculture ('Mr Forbes') annouuccil. that Cabinet

has: agreed io the continuation for '"tii/Ccoining mui.-cii of the Govcrugunxmi guarantee mi fruit exported |;t ; ci.u the dominion. 1 lie guarantee’ is-,at the ral'i. e-f ID- |ier case for 1 “ exil'd fancy “ and " lan-cy grades, and 7s par rase for good • .apples and pears. During Iho past season ffoV.OkiS eases ui apples

and 759.) 11 eases ol pears were exported.—Press A ssoeiat lon. GOOD NATURE LEADS TO OFFENCE. ' TTic trial of Ellers and Thomas in the Supreme Court, Wellington. on charges ot inrgery and attempted uttering of a motor driver’s license ended abruptly, both ‘withdrawdug their defence frnd pleading guilty. Counsel said the facts outlined by the Crown wore, never intended to be denied by.Eilers, who had been moved to defend the ease first that he might not lose his position with the City Council, and second that the stigma of a common forger might not rest on him. 11 is Honour .-aid the men were not criminals; no one was defrauded, ’I homavs idea being that the license should he so dated that he could take ifc to the police and it would appear that it had been issued prior to his having been a ecu-ted by a, con-table. His Honour look the course of fining each ami ordering them to pay the eu-ts ef the prosecution (.CIO Os). He -aid, seeing that Filer's offence was really a matter or" good nature, the corporation would be amply justified in not visiting the offence with the punirhmout of dismissal.-—Press Astoi .ciatioc