CAR TWICE REGISTERED.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17579, 19 March 1929, Page 8

CAR TWICE REGISTERED.

CONFUSION CAUSED. AN INTERESTING CASE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, March 18. An interesting case was brought in the Magistrate’s Court, before Messrs B. C. Lowry ajnd J. H. Gittos, Justices of the Peace, when S- J. Bine km ore, garage proprietor, was charged with failing to notify the deputy-registrar of motor vehicles of the disposal of a registered motor vehicle. The traffic inspector explained that on February IG, 15)27, the Wizard Separator Company purchased a new car from the defendant and registered it on that date for two months, ending March 31. 15)28, and for a further period from April 1, 1927, to March 31, 1928. After the vehicle had been used for three weeks it was returned to Blackmore in part payment for another motor-car. Some two months later a. Mr Peart, farmer, of? Raglan, approached Blackmore with a view to purchasing a car. He was sold the car that had been returned by the Wizard Separator Company, then bearing demonstration numbers. Peart had had the car re-registered. He had no’t been advised by the defendant that it had previously been registered, but had been given to understand that it had been used exclusively for demonstration purposes. Traffic Inspector Courtney v pointed out that the case was the first of its kind in Hamilton, and the serious aspect of it was that it had caused numerous inquiries to be made. The registration of this vehicle at the

Nature hides many of her most entrancing treasures under a bushel, spreading many a colourful feast when darkness has driven most people indoor. The polar lights invariably suffer this fate, and it is for that reason that many people in Dunedin on Tuesday night missed one of the most perfect examples of the aurora australis that has illuminated the southern skies for many a year. It flickered and danced in desultory fashion for an hour or two earlier in the night, but it blushed unseen in all its roseate splendour in the midnight skv and later in that greater darkness that precedes the dawn. Long columns of soft white light radiated from points far down on the horizon, forming an enormous luminous fan that reached high up into the zenith of the heavens, and between these columns the “southern lights’ played with dazzling brilliance, giving the effect of a vast conflagration. of which only the reflection was visible.