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[per press association.] MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED. NEW PLYMOUTH, July 31. James Allan Holmes, of Pioneer Road, New Plymouth, married, aged 52, was killed instantly this morning when the motor-cycle he was riding collided with a motor-lorry at the intersection of Pioneer and Breakwater Roads, New Plymouth. Holmes fell with his machine under the lorry, the rear wheel of which passed over his head. PUBLIC SERVICE NELSON, August 1. A Nelson public servants’ general meeting unanimously passed a resolution of protest against the Commissioner’s report on efficiency tests for public servants, and supported the executive’s efforts to have the proposed tests abandoned. The Nelson section expressed the emphatic opinion that the enforcement of the tests, while many servants were on active service, would be wholly unjustified and unfair. MANY THEFTS. CHRISTCHURCH, August 1. Having stolen goods valued at £470, in the course of the last eighteen months, Henry Herbert Pearce, aged 37, admitted 45 charges in the Court to-day. Pearce was ’sentenced to two years’ gaol.
The police said van-loads of stolen goods were discovered at Pearce’s home. They included rifles, guns, jewellery, electric motor paint, petrol, surgical instruments, typewriter, and a sewing machine.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 August 1940, Page 10
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