An employee at. the Westfield freezing works, Auckland. Mr. John Hogg, 31, married, of Glen Eden, was severely scalded in an accident, at the works. Mr. Hogg was on duty at, the digesters in the manure department. When he was adjusting due of the vents on a large retort, the fastening gave way and a quantity of the boiling liquid content’s was released.
A ciißo in which a youth of 21 was charged with the unlawful conversion to his own use of a motor-cycle valued at £4O occupied the attention of Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Police Court early this afternoon. After hearing the evidence for the prosecution, the magistrate held that the charge had not been proved, and dismissed the information without calling upon the defence, conducted by Mr. S. V. Beaufoy. A second information charging the accused with the theft of a fish-tail exhaust pipe and speedometer valued at £7 from the same machine was withdrawn by leave of the coutt.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 6
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