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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19667, 27 June 1938, Page 7

For the theft of 10 dairy cows valued at £35, the property of Mrs. Katerina Ilinchou Patitiki, ol lupa--oa on February 4, a Maori, Tarnati Pokai, of Ruatoria, appeared on Thursday before Messrs. R. F. Jackson and W. W. Ludbrook, J.P.s, in the Ruatoria Police Court and was committed for sentence to the next sitting of the Supreme Court in Wellington. Mrs. Patitiki had left the cows iit the care of a neighbour while slit' was out of the district. Pleading guilty, the accused said that he had had 24 cows running on an adjoining property. He sold the 24 cows and when lie noticed there was not the required number in the paddock he took the 10 belonging to Mrs. Patitiki to make up the required number lor his sale. The accused Iliad previously sold the 10 cows to Mrs. Patitiki

Discussing tiro cost of stock transport by motor-lorry, Mr. Lawson Field, at yesterday afternoon’s meeting of the Poverty Bay and East Coast Sheepownors’ Union, commented upon the contract; between the loading and discharging rates for wool and livestock. In the case of wool, he said, the loading might take hours, and likewise on discharging at the store, the lorry was delayed while every bale was weighed and chocked, several lorries being held up at a time, in some cases. The* loading and unloading of livestock, however, could be carried out in short order, and some consideration should be given to Ihe stockowner on that account. Mr. Field thought that the wool firms should bo approached to improve the facilities at their stores for discharging wool, as that might entitle farmers to claim a reduction in freighting rates.