No Legal Obligation.

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1947, Page 9

No Legal Obligation.

‘‘There is no obligation in law for articles found to be handed to the police,” remarked counsel for a man who, when charged in the Auckland Police Court with the theft of an said he had found it in a public convenience wrapped as a parcel. The accused said he had watched the newspapers for advertisements for lost articles, but admitted he had not handed his And to the police. Following counsel’s remark, the prosecutor’ did not pursue the point further. “Circus Without Sawdust.” “When the Commissioner of State Forests, Mr. Skinner, starts to discuss afforestation he is like a circus without sawdust. He does not know the first thing about it,” said the Mayor, Mr. J. Guiniven, at a meeting of the Takapuna Borough Council, when speaking to a motion to support the Auckland City Council in its request for the setting aside of Waipoua h orest as a national reserve. Mr. Guiniven said it was a disgrace tne way Waipoua Forest was being cut. town, and added that it was only, by a united protest that the ‘‘biggest piece lof tomfoolery”,.he hadr ever,.., seen [would be stopped. The resolution was carried.