A WITNESS' PROTEST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 11

A WITNESS' PROTEST

(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. “I wish to protest that when .1 was arrested 1 was not warned in any shape or form that my evidence would be used against mo,” stated Arthur Edward FarquJinrsui), mi elderly man who was one of the chief witnesses in the chargo of murder against Alfred James Stanley C'olenso. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers: That’s all right; you are not being charged with anything. Tho witness appeared to be vary relieved.

The .is ..being asked .to treat with urgency its ‘consideration of .the matter of granting a relief' works' subsidy for the construction of the' Macrae baths. To-day the Mayor, Mr-’ D. W. .Coleman, displttchfed thS follbwing telegram to the acting-PrimC Minister and to the Minister’ 'of Public Works, while the member for' the dis-i .trict, Mr. W. I): EyShar, has' ( bhenf asked to support ’ the re<jut»t‘,.* ‘‘Ebfefritigi to ,my Wire of the Eighteenth pit,,! in connection with relief wdrks 'upfem-1 ployment and your reply tlltei'gt6,;l pAw l have to urge that the-‘work suggested,/ Macrae, baths, ‘ be' ‘approved And' tftfej subsidy granted, as the unemployments position is how very seyious/- The council was fortunate in being able .to secure the Macrae bath money fog ,ey-* penditure. Kindly expedite approval, and oblige.” B.S.A. motor-cycle sales .in Tasmania, for July represented .38 per cent, of .total ( ‘sales of all makes and wege over lw per cent, greater than their next neai'ejst. competitor. R.SjA. still lead the way; in' convincing fashion. See the latentB.S.A. models at the Uorlett Bicycle afid Mqtor Works, )Gladstone"Roil,d, 'and hsk' for a denionstrgtioiL* ”