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Kaikoura Star, Volume XLV, Issue 72, 8 September 1925, Page 3

At the Stratford Magistrate*’s Court, when a man was charged with fading to report a motor accident and driving without a license, Mr A. M. Mowlem. »S.M. said that the law required an :i--cident to be reported, whether coriou: or not. The duty was laid upon defendant to report, and it was not left to an; man to say whether the* accident was serious, if it was left to a man io report what he thought was serious, they would never got anything reported. He was going to treat the breach as lo.ninal because it was the first lime sucL a charge had been laid in Stratford, but he hoped others would not think <hal they would be let off with the same penalty. A well-known stock buyer informed the Rotorua Chronicle that in a draft of 19(1 fat cattle from Opotiki diistriit the average price was about £l7 per head. Some exceptional beasts off To Puke pastures fetched £25 apiece. This -s big money compared with prices ruling twelve months ago. The informant stated that the prices were not inert seasonal episodes, but does to a genuine shortage of cattle throughout, the Dominion. He saw no reason why goo*., times should not be in store for the graWhy should a bird with a wing and another without a wing, always dis agree ? -Because there is a difference of a pinion (opinion) between them.