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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6666, 20 July 1928, Page 6

His Worship tho Mayor, Mr. A; J, Graham, has been successful in putting seven unemployed men on work at Milverton Park in addition to the men already employed there under tho returned soldiers’ scheme. There are now over a dozen men working on the preliminary grubbing, etc., at the park. Sentence of 14 days’ imprisonment was imposed at Wellington yesterday on Sydney George Tyson, aged 22, who pleaded guilty to receiving . 25yards of art silk, valued at £1 the property of the Shaw-Savill Company, knowing the material to have been dishonestly obtained. Defendant was a seaman on the Arawa on arrival of which vessel at Auckland lately it was found that silk valued at £BOO had been pillaged, 'fho Auckland police were advised that accused had disposed of -some of tho silk, and when he was interviewed by the police at Wellington on Wednesday Tyson admitted having received it from another member of tho crow whoso name ho would not disclose. An order was made for tho accused to be placed aboard tho vessel if she sails from the Dominion before the expiration of the sentence.

‘ ‘ The dairy companies that have gone in for farm instructions are those that are showing the best balance sheets,” observed, Mr N. Campbell, president, at yesterday’s conference of the Dairy Farmers' Union. He prophesied that if the appointment of instructors was made universal in the Dominion, there would bo a remarkable improvement in the exported produce.

Arising put of a fatal motor accident at Mangorei on June 30 when a service car, driven by James Fowler somersaulted over a bank and oho of the passengers, John Lord, of Christchurch, received injuries from which he subsequently died in hospital, an inquest into circumstances surrounding the latter’s death was held at New Plymouth yesterday, simultaneously with the hearing of charges against Fowler of driving tho car negligently, thereby causing Lord’s death,’ and of driving his car without having it properlylighted. A formal verdict was returned at the inquest and Fowler was commited to the Supreme Court for trial The evidence was that Fowler was driving with only parking lights burnling.