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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17433, 4 December 1930, Page 13

An iidjoiiriirnent until to-morrow afternoon was granted in tlic I’olive Court this afternoon in ,i fuse in which two young men were charged with unlawful carnal knowledge in res|ieet of a girl of 15, at I {ere. The accused, wlm were represented by Air. |{. B. Hill, were Clarence Allen tlvde, and J'jnr.st llim lei*. Detective Mel.cod represented the police. Stating his opinion was that the cause of a break in a sewer in bower Cuba street last year, which resulted in premises occupied l hv Davis Bros., auctioneers, becoming Hooded, was an earthquake—an act of Cod —the Chief .Justice, Sir Michael Myers, gave judgment for the Wellington City Council in a claim for damages amounting to £290 19s 9d brought against it by the firm mentioned.