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Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1930, Page 11

Counterfeit coins have made their appeal ance at Gore, states the Southland Times. A local resident, when tendering a 2b piece in a shop on Saturday, was told that it could not be accepted. A closer inspection revealed that it was somewhat lighter than the others among the change tendered, although in other respects it was a very good imitation. “That is not 'my correct name,”' said a man in tho •■Supreme Court' at ‘Auckland- tvlien the grand jury was being empanelled. The man step-ped forward and to the deputy-registrar that one of his Christian names was not “Benjanfin,” but “Ben,” and that his surname, as called, was also incorrect.: “You are perfectly entitled to have your correct name on the court list,” commented Mr. Justice Smith. A motorist who was charged in the Magistrate’s Court at /luckland with failing to obey a traffic officer’s signal said two persons used, the same motorear and it was not definitely known who was driving the car at ths time of the offence. The matter was settled by tho two drivers tossing a coin to decide who should take the blame.

Varying estimates of the distance at which the headlight of a railway engine is visible were given during a trial in the Supreme Court at Auckland. The driver and fireman of the engine said they could clearly pick up objects four or five chains distant, when travelling at normal speed. They explained that their headlight was an acetylene lamp, and that- the glare of it would be visible to anyone a mile off. A farmer said he had seen-the light a mile and a quarter away on the night referred to. The electric headlight on a Limited express engine can (/ adds the Star, be seen (three pi*, fpifr miles* away on-a clear, night, paid the driver can discern objects half a mile dlie'a'd'' : oii 'a-isl:rai|jllt a run; ' ” Al'xi't I]