DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 March 1929, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS.

OWNERSHIP' OF CYCLE. (By Telegraph— V'ress Association.) HASTINGS, March /. An unusual case was heard in the Magistrate’s Court when his Worship was asked to make an order determining the ownership of it cycle, the property of a bank clerk who had left the machine in a, right-of-way, and which was stolen. The thief sold the bicycle to a second-hand dealer who, paid £2 for it and he naturally wished compensation for this amount. The rnagistrate made an order that the cycle should be returned to the true owner and that the second-hand dealer would have try put the £2 to- profit and loss.

DRY SPELL OVER. HASTINGS, March 7. The long spell of dry weather in. Hawke’s Bay was broken last night when heavy rain fell for some hours, being very welcome to> farmers and gardeners. Prospects are for a further heavy fall. MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE OVER. WANGANUI, March 7. The Municipal Conference . hais concluded. The delegates’ visited, the spiral pipe works and were entertained at a garden party this afternoon. Invercargill wa,s; selected for the confer-; ence next year. XO CHANGE, JN BATING SYSTEM - AUCKLAND, March 7 TIT* proposal to introduce in the Waitemata County the system of rating on unimproved values instead ot on capital values, wa, s yesterday defeated. bv 2393 to 1251 votes. PERSONAL ■•• 4 The- death is report front Wellington of Mr Goo roe B. Christie, local man-ao-er of the New Zealand Express Company for the past fifteen years. He leaves a wife and a daughter.