TELEGRAMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21544, 16 January 1932, Page 12

TELEGRAMS

(Per United Press Association.) HAMILTON, January 15. The collapse of a bridge over the Ruakiwi Stream hurled a double-decker lorry carrying 85 lambs into-the stream, 30 feet below. The lorry landed wheels up, but fortunately the engine rested on the bank, enabling the driver, J. Hampstead, to make his escape. Ho had his arm broken, and received severe bruiser. The lorry was wrecked, and 53 lambs were killed. WELLINGTON, January 15, Doris Isobel Board, aged 18, was placed on two years’ probation by Mr T. B. M'Neil, S.M., for stealing goods valued at £2 10s and for attempting to obtain £4O from the Mutual Loan and Deposit Company- by false presences. It was stated" that she made arrangements with a land agent for renting a house, giving her name as Mrs Landseer. She paid ffl Cs as two weeks’ rent in advance, and two weeks later she insured the furniture in her assumed name, and the following day attempted to raise £4O on it; but this led to the police being called in, and. it was found she had taken some of the property from the house. Henry W. Cox, a baker, was fined £lO for delivering short weight bread. The magistrate took into account the fact that Cox did not himself bake the bread and had given instructions to the foreman to be careful regarding the correct weight.