Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 26 January 1939, Page 11

Points From The News

QNE of the earliest frosts ever recorded'’!!!'the~ Waikato was experienced yesterday morning, 2.4 degrees being registered at the Ruakura Farm. No frost was recorded in Hamilton, but the temperature fell to 53 degrees during the night.

,\YHEN digging .among the remains of an old Maori settlement at the Wairau Bar, Marlborough, a few days ago,' -a small boy discovered an old grave in which were ,a Maori skeleton and an almost perfect specimen of a mpa’s egg, about 9in. long and 6in, in,diameter, in view of the fact that so far as is known only four perfect moa’s eggs have been found in New Zealand, it is felt that the specimen would make a valuable addition to a museum collection, and it is believed that the boy’s stepfather, Mr E. C, Perano, intends to communicate with the Dominion Museum in Wellington.

new Dunedin Post Office workshops ttod stores building is to eost £47,000, a tender for that amount having been accepted by the Government. The structure is to be erected of reinforced concrete with steel roof trusses and corrugated asbestos roofing. Although the structure is to be of pretentious proportions, the cost can,, in parts, be attributed to the high cost of material and also the cost of labour.

JJOW a motor car, “converted” in Petone by two men, travelled at high speed through Wellington streets, was described by DetectiveSergeant P. McLennan in the Magis-. trate’s Court at Wellington yesterday, when Harold Beggs, ,a labourer, aged 34, land Conrad Thomas Meiling, a labourer, aged 29, pleaded guilty to the unlawful conversion of a motor car. “This nffence must be punished by imprisonment,” said Mr J. H. Luxford* Sentencing each of the accused to six.; months’ imprisonment with hard labour.

jpOUR butchers were each fined 10/by Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M., at Christchurch yesterday* in cases in which the defendants Were charged with selling mincemeat which contained more; than the permissible amount of sulphur. dioxide—3.s grains to the lb. , Mr T. Pargiter, of the Health Department, said a report sent to-the Department from Johannesburg drawing attention to the detrimental effect to the digesibn pf a surplus of sulphur dioxide in meat, led to investigations around Christchurch. Out of 44 cases, 11 failed to comply with the regulations.

H IS attention attracted by the er-

■ v ratic- course of a motor-cyclist, a Newtown (Wellington) constable gave Chase, with the result that Raymond Eric Fuller appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, and pleaded guilty to being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-cycle. He was convicted and sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment, his license being cancelled for 12 months.

inquest concerning the death of Mrs Miriam Edna Excell was concluded at Taumarunui yesterday. Mrs , Excell was found in a paddock at Taringamotu by her husband on January 19, and collapsed and died shortly afterwards. Dr. A. B. Sturtenent said, that he had performed a post-mortem. The analyst’s report stated that a fatal dose of poison was present. A verdict that deceased committed suicide by taking poison while in an unsound state of mind, was returned.