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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17711, 4 December 1925, Page 1

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BUTTER SLUMP. LONDON, December 3. The butter trade is at a stand still. Quotations are nominally: New Zealand choicest salted about 104 s, Australian lS4s to ISOs per cwt., but sellers would •>r i . accept less except for unsalteds which are scarce at about Is above salted. The cheese market is quiet. New Zealand consign > ments have been cleared. NEW PENALTY FOR MOTORISTS. Victor Slitter, a motorist who appared at the Magistrate's <'ourt before Mr H. A. Young, S.M., this > afternoon, was ordered as part of his sentence on a negligent driving charge, to pay £SO compensation to Dorothy Osborne, a young woman who was injured in an accident caused by Slater's negligence. Tie was fined £2 for driving a car without a license. Th: is the first time that the penYtv has been enforced in Christchurch. The new penalty is provided f *r in the Motor Vehicles Act. and the Magistrate said he would impose it in all similar cases. lie advised motorists to get insured. | R I :• i DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC. A verdict that death was due io ; heart failure, caused by septicaemia ! administered for the purpose of a necessary operation, was returned ar ' the inquest on William Dougald AlcPbee, aged 15 years, by the C noli or this afternoon. HAMILTON SLANDKK ACTION. HAMILTON. December I Mr .Ju.-tice Herdman t .-da* c.ivo reserved Judgement on the law points raised in the ea e in which John J r '' natius T<x secured a jury verdict for" £IOOO against William GoodfeiJou. managing . ireclor of the N< u Zejland Co-op. Dairy < oy. for sdnnd r. Defendant's motion was dismiss- ' ei. and judgment was given tor plaintill .n three causes, with costs. WAIiIAKAJUKI LJN FLOOD. ill.- Wannakarivi i’Ner r s- m 110 d this altera, on, and was threat-

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