DOMINION NEWS.
DETAINING A POSTAL PACKET. [Per Peess 'Association.] . Dannevirke, February. 5. Reginald Stanley Herbert was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence to-day on a charge of detaining a postal packet which should have been delivered to another person. Mr Herbert, a settler at Pongaroa, sent for five Tattersall tickets. On receiving the letter he found one ticket missing. This ticket contained a winning number, a. prize of £IOO, and was in the name of his daughter. Rose Alma Herbert. Accused sent a friend to the post office for his letters, and received one containing the tickets, and endeavored to obtain the £IOO prize. He said he was tempt ed and avas sorry. for, what ha had don©. > ■ THE OTIRA TUNNEL. , i i! : ~ Greymouth, February 0. !i A«.runaway truck did £IOO worth of damage ait the Otira .end> of- the rail.way tunnel j Two men were dismis: - edras'» result, and yesterday (the men at the iOtiiuvj end struck work. •■
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 32, 7 February 1914, Page 3
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