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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16227, 29 December 1926, Page 13

LATEST N.Z. NEWS

CHARGES OF THEFT (Per Pres? Association.) WELLINGTON, Ibis day. Jack Stanley Miles, a ship’s• baker, and Thomas Bailey Wilson, a laborer, who were found on Ihe wharf with lOOlbs of flour and 11 tins of condensed milk, appeared on a charge of theft of the goods from tlio steamer iMahana. Miles was sentenced to 14 days’ gaol,, and ordered to be placed aboard if the vessel sailed sooner. The othey man got (he benefit of the doubt of liis knowledge that the goods were stolen. The goods were secreted in the side-car of a motor cycle. For the theft of a. gramaplione, valued at. £5, from a house where ho spent the evening, and apparently had some th ink, a fireman, Edward Dotl, who had a good character from the ship, was fined £2. 1 BORROWING BY POWER EOARDS PALMERSTON N., this day. For some time the Power Boards’ Association has been endeavoring to obtain legislative authority to allow one hoard to lend any surplus funds they may have to another board temporarily. Trie Minister of Finance, Mr. W. Downie Stewart-,* has now informed Mr. J. A. Nash, M.IL, chairman of the Association, that it is not considered desirable to grant such authority. The Minister added that the proposals would/ possibly mean tho granting of further power to a borrowing board to borrow without the consent of the ratepayers, and that difficulty also may be experienced in raising sufficient cash jjfo meet- the demand for repayment when tlie lending board required the money. CROSSING SMASH MARION, this day. ; A railway crossing a short distance north of R-ala station was the scene of an accident this morning when a motor lorry driven by Ernest Bickford, married, a farmer, ran into the engine of tho southbound Auckland express. The lorry was badly smashed. Pick ford, who was hurled dear, had a remarkable escape, sustaining head injuries. He is expected to make a good recovery. BUS RUNS OVER BANK WELLINGTON, this day. '~ A bus went off the road at Tita-hi. Bay yesterday afternoon and plunged 6ft. over the bank, landing against a fence. The driver and passengers escaped with scratches and minor injuries. The bus was badly damaged. WATERSIDERS’ AGREEMENT ■CHRISTOHTiRUH. this day. A stop-work meeting this morning of Lyttelton watorsiddrs agreed to. work on Saturday afternoons, thus falling into line with ihe practice in other port;!. Following (lie decision the men will receive an increase in wages of lAd an hour, which will he retrospective for a period of between six and nine months.