GENERAL NEWS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 41, 24 June 1929, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

More Earthquakes. Earthquakes were felt in Stratford at 3 a.in. and G a.in. on Sunday. The earlier one was very sharp and lasted for a considerable time. Power Board Accumulated Fund. An error crept into the “Post” report of the Power Board meeting. The amount of the Board’s accumulated fund was stated as £BO,OOO, but the correct figure! is £20,000 odd.

Nearly an Accident. Wh at might have been a serious accident occurred in Broadway North yesterday, Mr S. A. Ward was preflceeding down the road in his car when a wheel came off. He promptly stopped the car, however, and thus averted any serious consequences. Mountain House Road. Ten men were sent up this morning to make a start on the work on tlie road to the Mountain House. The full team for the job will he twentylive. The remaining fifteen men have been chosen for the job and will he sent up at an early date. A Strange Coin. A country resident who was taking the money at a dance, bad offered to him a coin winch, be at first refused to take, believing it, to be a foreign colli, but investigation shojved that it was a British 1928 sixpence, the designl of six across on the “tail” appearing strange after the design! which has r O . long been familiar.

Barrett Road Fatality. The dead body of John Burke, a farmer living alone on Barrett Road, Omata, was discovered on Saturday by a neighbour, at the foot of a, sixfoot bank and with the head against a buggy pole, a bruise on the forehead indicating that Burke had struck the pole when he fell. An inquest was opened at New Plymouth on Saturday. A post mortem examination is to he made. Painful Accident. / Mr B. T. Wilson, of Mahoe, met with a. painful accident last week. He was removing some iron from a roof and a piece of steel flew from the hammer he was using and struck his eye. It was at first thought that the steel had entered the eye, hut on medical attention being procured it was found that this, luckily was not so, but that the eye was badly bruised.

A Drive, On Tuesday and Saturday last the Borough Inspector (Mr A. B. Sayers; conducted a, drive for the purpose of ascertaining how many people not possessed, of drivers’ licenses were running motor vehicles. On Tuesday 200 vehicles were stopped and 20 drivers were found to he without licenses, and on Saturday of the 42 stopped five were found to be without licenses.

Judgment by Default. Judgment for plaintiff by default was given, in the following cases a <t a- sitting of, the Magistrate’s Court at Stratford this morning, oefore Mr 11. ,W. Tate, S.M.Stratford Hardware Co. (Mr Coleman) v. 0. T. Colemam, £l2 8s Bd, costs £2 ids; Stratford County Council (Mr : Coleman} v. Ernest Baker, £SO 17s, costs £4 13s 6d; same v. Georg© H. Kemp, £33 jls 4d, costs £4 3s 6d ; Joseph Jacobs (Mr Thomson) v. G. H, Kemp, £6 costs £2 14s 3d.