GENERAL NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 21, 20 August 1928, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

■ -- —-—-• THEFT FROM CAR

i A Stratford resident left Jus car in Broadway, the back of the car containing a, sack of potatoes. He was away on business for about half an hour, and on his return found that somebody had helped himself to about a sugar-bagful of his potatoes. RAID AT MANAIA. A surprise visit was paid to premises in Manaia on Saturday by Detective Meiklejolm and Const ible Scanned, when material alleged to be used for betting purposes was seized A charge of keeping a common, gaming house, jt xs ./understood, wilS follow.

• A STATE OF MUDDLE

Describing as “a state of muddle'’ tile position arising from irregularities in the procedure adopted by the Tauranga County Council in striking certain rates in 1927, Mr Justice Reed, in a reserved judgment delivered in the Supreme Court at Auckland on Tuesday, declared the rates in question invalid and unenforceable, and granted the plaintiffs in the action an injunction restraining the council from collecting from, them. without further authority from (be court, rates totalling -£lO9 19s 7d- The total rates concerned amount of £11,028. and of this sum the council has collected £8650 ■

MOTOR. COLLISION. Albert Burns, a resident of Bur-* wood, Christchurch, when riding a motor-cycle along the 1 Sou lib collided with a motor-car and wb i admitted to hospital with a badly broken leg. The Injured limb wait amputated last night, and Burns’ condition is improving. IMPORTED GOODS. Tie action of the Railway Department in accepting display advertisements urging the public to refrain from buying imported commodities A was strongly criticised at a meeting of the Auckland Provincial execu. five of the NeW Zealand Farmers Union on Tuesday. It was unanimously decided to bring the matter to the notice of .Die Minister of Railways, deprecating', the narrow conception shown in regard to Empire ideals, and the detrimental elfeet of such advertisements Jipot* in-ter-imperial .trade relations. 1 1 BANANAS DESTROYED The Government motor-ship Mfruf Poiriare arrived at Auckland yesterday and reported that 6000 cases of bananas from the Islands had been' jettisoned at sea. She bad °nly 200 cases fit for consumption. Tie cause of the loss has not been established, hut it .is understood the refrigerating apparatus was in good working order. The weather on the voyage was not unusually hot but the 'temperature in the banana hold rose to 100 degrees, or double that required, a day or so after leaving Aina,,, An inquiry is being held. . t BROADCASTING RACES. During a short discussion at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Hawera Trotting Club, with reference to the broadcasting of raping results, the president pointed out that the politereports in regard to wireless descriptions while races were being run were unfavourable (says the Star). It was contended, that broadcasting increased facilities for betting with bookmakers, and employers had complained that a great deal of time was wasted through employees listeningin for results of races instead of going about* tlieir woirk. “There should! be more drastic legislation to eliminate illegal betting,” concluded the speaker.