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TOWN EDITION.

On the arri\-al at Naples of the steamer Europa with 800 immigrants from NeAV York, the police boarded tho vessel and arrested five dangerous Anarchists, Aiho are believed to be :he organisers of an Anarchist plot to take advantage of the unsett;ed state of Italy. The Repatriation Committee met this afternoon, and dealt' ivith 13 applications lrom soldier applicants under the provisions of tho Repatriation Act. These included four for assistance into business, one to purchase a horse, four for assistance to purchase furniture, two for subsidised ivages Avhile learning a trade, one for free tuition m laAV, and another for assistance to learn sheep*farming. '.'!•■•"--;■ The present sitting of the Native Land Court Avas completed by Judge J. W. Browne this morningi Foul* petitions Avere granted andone. refused. Two applications to finally ascertain list of native bencfid'aries and determine their relative interests were adjourned to Wairoa. Eighty-one applications for succession orders Averc granted and 15 were refused. The Native Land Board sits to-morroAv, Avhen leases, purchases, and sa:'cs will be dealt with. The inquest into the death of the little girl Eiieen May Thackwell AA-as concluded at the Magistrate's" Court this afternoon.—Dr. R, M. Guiin said he attended the deceased, who av«s severely f aided about the loAver I.nibs. He .... dered her to the hospital. The injury she receiA'ed, together with tho shock, Avas to cause death.— Tho AJoronev (Mr J. S 4 Barton, S.M.) said the death Avas cOearly due to pure misadventure, and ho returned a verdict that deceased met her death through scalding, no blame being; attachable to anyone. Colonel Fletcher informs us that today ho received a further letter from one of the soldiers at the hospital, which states : "With reference to the statement made. by me to .you that eggs supplied to returned soldiers at the hospital Avere bought by-:-thein and not supplied by the hospital, free of charge, I have to inform you that a patient m the ward came along daily and collected eggs from the patients, to be cooked. ■ The eggs collected were the property of the" patients and were purchased by the patients from their friends. A free supply of eggs was not : made by the hospital to returned soldiers up to the time the matter Avas raised' by the Defence Committee." > I ________________

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15120, 20 January 1920, Page 6

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384

TOWN EDITION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15120, 20 January 1920, Page 6

TOWN EDITION. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15120, 20 January 1920, Page 6

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