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TABLE OF CONTENTS. Fags Athletics ... ... ... ... 54 Astronomical Notes ... ... ... 23 - Adulteration of Milk 1 ... ... ... 7 A Beautiful Day ... ... ... 77 Angling ... ... ... ... 58 Bowling ... ... ... ... 57 Billiards ... ... ... 53 . Boxing ... ... ... ... 58 Births. Marriages. Deaths, and In Mkmoriam Conciliation and Arbitration Bill Cricket CILENDARFOR THK WEEK ..a ... Commercial ... ... Cablegrams ... ... Cycling Correspondence ... .. ... Captain Reddon’s Case ... ... Character of the Modern Greeks ... Chess ... ... Casualties ... ... ... Draughts ... ... Dominion Mortgages ... ... . ... Dot's Little Folk ; Letters from the Little Folk.—Dunedin Club Notes.— Dunedin D.L.F. Literary and Debating Club ... ... ... Editor’s Wallet English Mails ... • ... ... FARM AND STATION: The Recant Prosecutions for Inferior Milk. — Reversing Nature’s Procesfes.— Selling Milk on the Basis of Quality.—Sheep Dipping.—A North Island Talk.—Our Yorklre Letter.—Death of Lambs. — E nglish Dairy Show.—Jubilee Show. — Wool Sties.— Agricultural and Pastoral News.—Commercial Cablegrams.— Southland Agricultural Notes. Our Canterbury Agricultural Budget.— The High Commissioner’s Report.— The Dunedin Markets — Local A. and P. News.—Notes on Rural Topics.— Stock and Grasing Notes. —The Breadstuffs and Produce Market*.— The Butter and Cheese Market.—Canterbury The Markets Fanciers’ Column.—Poultry Notes, Kennel ... ... . ... Fun and Fancy Football ... ... ... Golf ... ••• ••• Herr and There ... Health Column ... Hospital Boards ... _ , ... Hospital Saturday Association ... Home Rule ... ... In Days that hare Gone ... Imperial Politics ... ... Legal Statistics Land Boards... ... ... Literary Notes Literature ... ... ... Local and General ... ... Land and Water ... ... Lawn Tennis ... ... Mexico ... # ... ••• Moa Flat District Multum in Parvo ... ... Mining : The Week’s Mining News.— Dredging Returns ... Notes and Queries. Queries. Law Queries ... N.Z Parliament Our Public Schools Column,. Omnium Gatherum Obituary ... Our Babies Pater’s Chats With The Boys.. Passing Notes Personal Notes ... Poetry ... ••• Personal Items ... Rifle Shooting Rowing ... ••• t Shipping Disaster ... Short Stories Sporting ; Canterbury Doings.—Welling. 11-22 53 62 54 58 77 68 10 5 30 71 20 3 11 78 78 9 58 57 59 3 59 .... 23 Veterinary ' 47 31 71 4 28 59 70 11 79 62 30 fi 58 75 81 ton Notes.— Auckland Topics.-Racing in N.Z —ln a Nutshell.—Talk of the D ay .—Weights, Acceptances, etc. ... 49-52 cience Notes how Dates... ... ••• ••• 0UT111.ANI) News Notes ... h.ppino News he Apiarv ... ... ... ... 'he Sketcher 'he Garden : Operations for the Week.— Horticultural Notes ... Fruit Indust'y ... ••• »• Fruit-growing he Balkans ... ... ... .<• he Dublin Strike ... ... imes-Bydney Sun Cables ... 'he Garland .. ... ... ... he Defence Forces ... 'he Defence Act ... ... *'• 'be White Plague ... ... ... 'he Land Bill ... ... Tie Country ’he Naturalist ’he Novelist ... ... ... 'aieriCounty Council... ... 'he Ladies' Paoe • Table Talk. Ladies' Gossip. Hints and Suggestions. Answers to Correspondent*. Horn* Interests.—“ Allen’s" Letter from Ragland,— In Fashion’s Realm.—The Week ’he Stage :• New Zealand Theatre Bookings.—Theatrical and Musical Notes.— Stage Gossip. The King's Theatre.— Fuller’s Pictures ... ... ’he Week.. ... .. V T estTaieri Drainage Board ... Vitnkss Subscriptions ... „. Women’s Suffrage WITNESS ILLUSTRATIONS 68 14 48 5.” 13 75 12 13 12 27 28 29 ■B9 6 6 10 10 35 68 62 23 63 60 48 23 x 47 30 39-16 NEW LYNN COLLISION. DRIVER’S ERROR OF JUDGMENT. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, October 23. The report of the Railways Committee on the petition of Mr A. Grandison and 23 others, who asked for an inquiry into the causes of the railway accident at New Lynn in May, was presented to the House. Tlie report read as follows : —“ That, having heard the evidence of the petitioners, the officers of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and the Locomotive Enginedrivers’, Firemen’s, and Cleaners’ Association, the officers of the department and other witnesses, the committee is of the opinion—(a) that there was a light fog at the time of the collision; (h) that the fog was not of such density as to necessitate the use of fog signals; (c) that Driver Corich was guilty of an error of judgment in not slowing down early enough to avoid over-running the danger signal; (d) that there is no blame attached to Porter Mortimer, who was In charge of the New Lynn station at the time of the collision; (e) that the railway facilities at New Lynn are sufficient lor the safe working of the trains. The Committee recommensd ; |1) That Porter Mortimer be exonerated; (2) that owing to his youth and his not being of ripe experience Driver Corich be reinstated in the service in a lower position for a time. There was no discussion of the report-, which was ordered to lie on the table ap4 to be referred to the Government*

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Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 38

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Page 38 Advertisements Column 5 Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 38

Page 38 Advertisements Column 5 Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 38

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