LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 6 August 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

— — h Mother's Will Disptited Three children disputed their mother's will in the- Supreme Court in Palmerston North yesterday. They were Vera Rose Dunstan, Alba May Trevena, and George Thomas McFarlane. The sole beneficiary was Claude Ivanhoe McFarlane, the will which was questioned being that of Mary Ann McFarlane, Cheltenham. Mr. Justice Fair awarded the -three plaintiffs £250, £150 and £450 respectively. Suieide by Drowning A verdict of suicicte by drownmg while temporarily of unsound mind was returned by the district coroner, Mr. G. C. Clouston, at an inquest at Opunake yesterday into the death of Duncan /Pollock, aged 40, farmer, Whose/bO&'y was found in the Opunake Power Board's )ake) on July 31. The eHdence pbinted to persistent illhe'alth.' Deceased was receiving an invalidity pension and had been unable to f ollow his occupation' for some time. I: Stole froih Totalisator "There are those wlio regard this crime of ktealing from a totalisator as worse than 'breaking into a sanctuary and taking something from an altar," said Mr. R. Hardie Boys in the Wellington Supreme Court when appealmg for leniency fcr Earle Dodds, aged 32, a machinist, who had pleaded guilty to six charges of forgery of totalisator tickets. Dodds was sentenced to two and a-half years' reformative detention on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. Cornbating Pillaging A ccntainer which is claimed to be "waterproof, rat-proof and pil-lager-prooF' is being tried out by a New Zealand manufacturrng eoncern. Standing six feet off the floor, occupying 160 cubic feet of space and weighing two tons wheh full, it complies with all the regulations laid down by the Marine Department and the shipping companies. A solid wooden case is reinforced with an'iron frame and the container can only be opened by unscrewing one'of the sides.