An Official Bungle.
ACTION AGAINST A FARMER
[By Telegraph—l’ress Association.]
Oamani, last night. An extraordinary prosecution took place in Court this morning. A farmer named Atkinson was charged with removing two tarpaulins from Teschmaker’s Biding, Totara, to cover some potatoes awaiting trucks. It was proved that the train guard gave Atkinson the tarpaulins to cover his produce, and that it was the common practice for the Department to give tarpaulins when a shortage of trucks necessitated the stacking of produce at the siding. Major Keddol, in dismissing the case, animadverted on the prosecution, and stud the case would never have been brought had the Hallway Department known the full circumstances. They were responsible for this state of things obtaining at country sidings.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 211, 12 September 1901, Page 3
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