WAIRARAPA NOTES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 165, 8 April 1921, Page 8

WAIRARAPA NOTES

The Department of Agriculture charged. Charles Blake, farmer, of West Taratahi, in. the Magistrate’s ’Court at Carterton, on Wednesday, with failing to destroy aioxioms weeds—biLackterry—on his property. Defendant pleaded not guiltv. The inspector stated in evidence that no" real effort had been made to clean tho weed up, and the patch on defendant’s property was the worst in South Wairarapa. The defence was that work was being carried on in the direction suggested by the inspector, and the spread of the weed was the result of lack of labour during the war. The case was adjourned for two months Io give defendant an opportunity to push the work ahead to the satisfaction of the inspector. Reserveil judgment was given at the Carterton Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday in the case of Catherine Phillips, school mistress, formerly of East Taratahi who claimed £2OO damages against Albert Tlerey South®}’, Mrs. (Southey, Stanley Gordon Green, and Mrs. Green for alleged assault. The (Magistrate found that an entirely unprovoked assault was committed by the female defendants, who were more or less, actively assisted by their husbands The plaintiff was entitled to succeed. She had suffered great indignity at the hands of the defendants, considerable pain, and acute mental disltew Judgment would be for plaintiff for £53 Gs., and costs £l2 l&L

npnoal was fixed. Mr. W. A. Multon, present Mayor Grevfown. has been requisitioned to stand again as Mayor. A deputation waited on him yesterday morning, and he agreed to bo nominated.