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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16474, 19 October 1927, Page 13

HERE AND THERE

(P.A. Messages). At last, night's meeting of the Auckland provincial executive of the Farmers' Union it was the general opinion that the Summer Time Act would benefit only the sporting community. A motion was carried asking the Education Board to permit rural schools to retain standard tiuue.

In the Supreme Court in Auckland b*> day, Joseph Mcdovern. on 17 counts of forgery and uttering valueless cheques and theft, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. A verdict of suicide while in a state of severe-mental depression was returned to-day by the Coroner at the inquest on Herbert ft very, 4 ( J. a retired farmer, who was found with his throat cut at Devonporf, Auckland. Deceased believed he was suffering from cancer, and the finding of the skeleton of an infant under his residence worried him considerably. The Hawke's Bay A. and P. Society's spring show opened to-day in glorious weather at the picturesque grounds at Tomoana. .The entries constitute a record. There is a wonderful display of stock.

Adjudged bankrupt with a deficiency of £OIOB in November, 1920, Alfred Ceorge Wallace, n middle-aged auctioneer, appeared in the Wellington Magistrate's Court to-day on three charges of having contracted debts totalling £2f54 fis Id 'when he had no reasonable or probable expectancy of paying them as well as meeting his other obligations. Tho alleged debts were £122 0s Lid with the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Co., £SO 10s 3d with Wright, Stephenson's Ashburton branch, and £Bl 4s lid with Pyne, Gould and Guinness, ChjJ'Stclnirch. Wallace pleaded not guilty, reserved his defence, and "was committed for trial, bail being allowed.