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(P.A. Messages.) At Whangarei to-day John Ewan McLean, 21, -a farm-hand, of Waipu, was fined £lO and his license was suspended for six months on a charge of being intoxicated when driving his employer s motor-car. The defendant was returning from the show last evening when he ran into a cyclist. Counsel said that but for the defendant accepting an invitation to have a beer when passing through Whangarei on his- way home he would have been quite capable of driving the car. William James Smith, 58, a laborer, was found dead at Luggate last night, under circumstances suggesting tbfb death was due to poison. George Shepherd, a carpenter, was admitted to- Wellington Hospital with a fractured skull. It is stated that he was leaning over a lift-well in the new T. and G. building to swing a, piece of timber, when the lift descended and knocked 1 him down three stories.
In a case at Hamilton against John Blair, who was charged with negligent driving thereby causing the deaths of two men, as the outcome of a recent double fatality at Hill crest, the jury retired this afternoon- and will examine the car driven by the accused.
William James Moore was sentenced to three months' hard labor at Hamilton to-day on a charge that he received bedding stolen at. Taumaruimi.
A plea of guilty was entered at Hamilton to-day by Oscar Schaare, a farmer, of Wardville, to three charges of offence against his daughters, and sentence was deferred. The Hon. F. J. Rolleston says Captain Middleton, the newly-appointed Director of Naval Reserves, barf taken up his,duties in Wellington and is taking immediate steps to form a, local division. Preference wilL be given to Mercantile Marine oflieers who served during the war. The wireless operator on the Norfolk was fined the minimum penalty of £25 at Wellington to-day for failing to. declare the number of radio sets on the search list of. the Customs Department when the vessel arrived at Auckland.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16506, 25 November 1927, Page 11
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