LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A charge of forging a service cur ticket was brought by the police against a young man named Robert Hulme in the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday. Mr. W. W. Thomson, the presiding justice, granted the police a remanu until November 26.

A tired taxi wandered off the steep Brougham Street stand in New Plymouth this morning while its driver had his back turned, wiped a down-pipe of Hannah’s verandah and leaned against the lamp post on the corner of Devon Street. Only the driver’s temper was damaged much.

An earth tremor awakened a number of people in Taranaki at about 5.15 a.m. yesterday morning. A gentle but more sustained tremor was noticed shortly after 11 o’clock yesterday morning by (B builder working on the Kahili Road. 'The line taken by the earlier tremor appeared to one observer to be from north to south. The concrete work of the new children’s ward at the New Plymouth hospital is expected to be completed soon after November, the architects reported to the board yesterday. The contractors had continued to make good progress despite the wet weather and the level of the concrete was about four feet above the first floor. 'Die construction of the roof would be commenced as soon as the concrete walls were completed.

The advance payment by the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Hamilton, for the November supply is 9Jd per lb for butter-fat for buttermaking and 1 s per lb for butter-fat for cheese-making.

The trial of Alexander Townsend, charged with the murder of his wife, entered its second day in the Supreme Court yesterday. The case for the Crown was concluded and counsel for 'the defence addressed the jury and called part of his evidence, which was directed to show that Townsend was insane at the time of the act. The case will probably be finished to-day. It is understood the charge against Abraham Wally Mahomed Salaman of manslaughter will next occupy the Court. Recently there was a motor-ear accident on Mt. Messenger, the ear being considerably burnt. A motor garage proprietor at once sent an offer to the interested parties fo purchase the remnants at a price’ which they, however, considered too low to accept off- hand. However, on inspecting the car two days later they came, to tl;e conclusion that the offer was too high and so too did tjie garage proprietor on re-visiting the site as lie found ,that in the interval someone had'stripped the ear of everything moveable and useable down to the nuts ou the wheel base. Two motor-cars collided at the intersection of Eliot and Courtenay streets, New Plymouth, at 6.45 last evening. One, a sedan owned by Mr. Whitwell, New Plymouth, was being driven by Mrs. L. Smith, Devon Street, southwards along Eliot Street, and the other, a touring car driven by Mr. L. G. Andrews, Wallace Place, was going westwards along Courtenay Street. The touring car was struck in the middle, but was almost undamaged. The sedan, which had the front part badly smashed and one wheel broken off, was removed by a breakdown truck. No one was injured in the accident. Mrs. Smith had a 2-year-old child with her.

The representative of the Waitara Maoris on the Taranaki Native Trust Board, Mr. Hapi Love, was at Waitara yesterday to obtain the views of the Watara tribe upon the distribution of the £5OOO annually granted by the Government as compensation for confiscated lands. The board will meet at Wellington to-morrow. The proposed visit of Sir Apirana Ngata has been indefinitely postponed owing to his attendance at the tangi of Lady Carroll.

Two road formation works of considerable importance are now in progress 911 the Junction Road under the jurisdiction of the Taranaki County Council. The sharp corner on the hill to the south of the Mangorei dairy factory is being cut away and the spoil deposited as a filling across the nearby corner immediately opposite the factory. The other work is the cutting away of the bank at the notorious “Marsh’s corner,” where a sharp bend at the top of the hill has been the scene of many accidents. A large number of New Plymouth “unemployed” were concentrated yesterday on the formation of the new highway along Avenue Road. A quantity of metal from the old roadway was being laid and rolled as a foundation for the new roadway, and considerable progress was made with the earthwork levelling at the side and the building up of the western footpath. Operations commenced yesterday morning at the southern end of th© main straight, the maj operating in a northerly direction towards the High School.

Jurors who had been notified to attend at the Supreme Court this morning are notified that they will not. be required till to-morrow morning.

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