WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1481, 2 July 1912, Page 9

WANGANUI JOTTINGS.

(By Tpleitraph.-SBecla! CurresDtmdcnU Wanganui, July I. After long delays, the "Missing Link" Hold on the right bank of the Wangamii Kiver, about fifteen mill's from town, lias been gazetted. The settlers have given consent fo tho loan, and the work will soon be started. The AVaitotara County Council have authorised the. laying" off, and have decided to call tenders for mine. A stripling, charged to-day with absence from parades, was fined 10s. and CO.-.K Ho stated, by way of excu.se, that hn had no objection to attend, but he did not. leave oil work in time to fall in at 7.1(0. Hi's employer raid that the youth stopped work at l> o'clock, but he (tlia employer) undertook to facilitate matters in future. The Magistrate remarked that he did not. know whether the fault lay with defendant or his cm-ployer. 110 would take n lenient view. . He must, however, impress defendant with his responsibility, a'.id a fine, as :i wariihis to other?, wculd therefore )).-■ impe.-ed. The line was as stated above. -As showing the Rfiiorally creditable inanner in which thj young liien here are obeying the Act, it 'may be mentioned that, though over 7Pfl youths are registered in Wunganiii. His above is only the second cass which has so far been before the Court.