LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16827, 14 December 1928, Page 3

LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS

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The total pay-out for the first Auckland wool sale on November —<s and 27 was £49.'),87(1 for the 21,991 bales sold, 22,2(17 having been offered. The average price per hale was £22 11s, as against £2l Ids at the November sale in 1927. and the average price per lb 15.(1td.

Edward John Samuel, a middle-aged commission agent, was charged m Auckland yesterday on IS counts oi obrniniiig credit by fraud. The amount involved exceeded £200(1. Tito representatives of eight firms in the Auckland province gave evidence regarding the sale of bricks and limber to accused. In most cases no payment whatever had been made. Builders and others staled that accost'd sold I hem bricks ami timber, for which they paid him. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail of £SOO being allowed.

The adjourned inquest into the death of Rliodti Mary Louisa Dunstun, 0, concluded in Christchurch yesterday. The evidence showed that the -hi LG had been playing with her brother, who struck a match which ignited the sleeve of his sister’s frock, the girl suffering severe burns before the father could extinguish the ilamcs. The coroner found that death resulted from bunts aecidcntallv received.

.In the Magistrate’s Court in Invercargill yesterday, Mr. G. (Jiiiicksliank, S.M., suggested that the motor regulations should provide for the marking of a ear which was towing another. He was of opinion that a car which was towing another should have a smalt red ling or some other distinguishing sign attached to the bonnet, and have a triangle of lights at night. This suggestion was made after the magistrate had delivered his judgment, in a motor eulision case, in which the driver of Hie first car, and also the driver of the car that was being towed, wore charged with dangerous driving. A motor-cyclist approaching the two vehicles had turned in behind the front, car ami had crashed into the second, not being aware of its presence.