MANAWATU NOTES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 75, 22 December 1920, Page 6

MANAWATU NOTES

'Prom Our Own Correspondent.)

Palmerstori North, December 21. White visiting the Rangiotu district vesterdav I was struck by the large number of inen who were working on one small farm, the majority of onsaacd in hnymakinß. Upon waKin* inquiries I learned that the owner of the farm was lying m hospital with a • biokpn leg and that the neighbours had gathered together in order to save the bby and perform the duties which had to iV carried, out on the farm if it was not- to be allowed to so buck. By His manner in which the men worked it was easy to tell that they were: not ordinary farm hands paid by ™ for every one was doing his wst, ami 1t vfts evidently a eoso of "speeding up. The act was a verv kindly ono. ami it was much appreciated by the wife of the unfortunate farmer. . ■ At the Magistrates Court at Palmerston North, yesterday. Andrew Dear, alias Bezznnv, who took a motor-ear I*loii"in» to Mr. Albert Osborne at Feilding"and wa.« followed to Palmerston and arrested there, was charged with bavins wilfullv converted the car to bis own use. He 'pleaded guilty. In imti?abon of the offence, accused said that lie nan been under a doctor for the nast two vears. purine wbieli ponrtd be bad been continually i" «"<' "»t of bospitft!. and that be was also subject to strokes. 110 admitted Hint be bad very nearly Men arrested in Palmerston on n previous occasion on a similar chaws. Mr. Slout, S.M.. said tbnt there bad been too much of this borrowing cars lately, ami h6 pcntenrod T)f>ar to <i month s imprisonwent in Wellington Gaol. • . . At the Police Court this morning, Clarence Featherston Bexar, descrtued a.i mi hotel porter, appeared, on several charges of obtajnine money bv false 0,-e----toiK'os. waft also oliaiyd ill" forge<i and uttered several cheques. Tn obtaining .BIS from a woman, ne told h*r that he had just sold out a. cmlec. tionerv business in Wellington for and that he would be lifting the nonet in the crtnvee of a daV or ttfo. Ho pleadei guilty to the charges, and wan remanded to tho Supreme Court for sentence. A local taxi-driver was eharied with a series of thefts <vf benzine afid kerosene, and was committed to tho Supremo Court for trial.