Police Allegation.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 133, 7 May 1945, Page 4

Police Allegation.

"These men had just started out on a career as desperadoes and before they were nnallv caught shots had to be fired over thci* heads." stated the police in the Dunedin Court in opposing bail for three 19-year-old youths, charged with car conversion and breaking and entering.

Honey Poisoning. Eleven men employed at -a bush camp near Piitaruru were admitted to the Wnikato Hospital suffering from honey poisoning. The effects were not serious and the men were discharged after a few days' treatment. National War Savings.

The following towns achieved their National War Savings quotas for the week ended Saturday. May o: Pa'lmerston North, Apiti, Ashhurst, Bulls, Danncvirke, Fcilding, Foxton, Halcombe, Kimbolton, Levin, Pahiatua, Pongaroa, Rangiwahia, Kongotea, Shannon, Weber and Woodville, Train Accommodation Taxed.

For some days past there have been long queues at the railway booking office in Palmerston North of people desirous of travelling during the school holidays. As no extra trains have been nut into service, the accommodation on the expresses is fully taxed and large numbers of passengers have had to stand. Polish Children on Holiday. Somo L'?6 Polish children and adults from the Pahiatua camp passed through Palmerston North on Saturday for stations between Eltham and New Plymouth. During the school holidays the children arc the guests of Taranaki residents. Today some 39 children left for Hawke's Hay where they are staying with residents. They were for stations between Dannevirke and Napier. Wintry Visitation. Wellington, like Palmerston North. has been experiencing low temperatures. A southerly wind on Saturday brought bail which lay in several of the suburbs for over a day. A fanamount of hail in the upper gullies of the Orongorongos and a mantle ot snow on the Tararuas were visible on Saturday. More heavy rain and nail fell in Palmerston North on Saturday night and early Sunday morning. A Fitzherbert East resident states that there was a very light fall of snow on the hills on Friday night, but it did not last long.

Germany's Doom. "The Germans have known for the last 18 months that they could not win the war," said Brigadier G.. H. Clifton when interviewed in Wellington on Saturday. The beginning oi that knowledge went back to the battles of El Alamein and Stalingrad, the two great cheeks to their grand strategy The next blow, which, shattered any remnants of hope, was the landin" in Normandy, for the Germans had been 'led to believe that the Atlantic AVall was impregnable and that the Allies would never even get a footing on the beaches. Brigadier Uitton recently returned to New Zealand after two and a half years as a prisoner of war.

Compensation For Widow. Compensation of £IOOO, with funeral and medical expenses £3O, and costs has been awarded by Mr Justice OTle-an in the Compensation Court to A "nes Leah Bo water, formerly of Feiidiug but now of Palmerston North, arising out of the death of her husband, Bernard H. Bowater, while employed by Robert James Managh, Halcombe sheep-farmer. Mr Bowater contracted blood-poisoning as the result of a prickle injury and subsequently 'died. His Honour held that plaintiff, Who sued on behalf of herself and her four children, had established her right to compensation. At the hearing Mr 1). C. Cullinane appeared for plaintiff and Mr H. 11. Cooper for defendant.