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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17911, 15 October 1932, Page 15

-It was decided at a meeting of the Waikato County Council to urge upon the Government that substitutes for benzine used (by lorry j ownevs shank! he taxed on the same scale as .benzine.' For having falsely represented that he was the manager of Dene Detton, the professional wrestler, and thereby obtained two small sums of money, John Edward Owens, 37, was sentenced in Wanganui to three months’ impriffonment. Owens came from -the United States in 1928, and 1 bad been before the court 17 times since. A statement that Australian white ants, believed to ‘have been imported with Australian hardwood piles, had been responsible for the decay of a totara telegraph pole in Arney road, Remuera, Was referred to the Rost and Telegraph Departrhent fit "Auckland. An official stated that 'there Was no evidence of white ants on the "pole referred -to. The decay resulted from 'the •ordinary weathering process of wind and rain.