NEWS AND NOTES.
“This is a case in which reasonable bail might be allowed,” said Detective Sergeant Rawle to the Bench in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court recently. “Very well,” replied the magistrate. “What is the value of tile goods?” The question created considerable amusement,’ as the prisoner in the dock was arrested for not supporting an illegitimate child.
Major-General Sir Alfred Robin, K.C.M.G., accompanied by Captain Garland, A.D.C., will leave Wellington on Saturday for Auckland, en route to Samoa, .where the general is .to act as Commissioner for a few months. Captain J. C. Hill, the new head of the Samoan police, with Sub-Inspector (late chief detective) Boddnm, and a force of police recruited in New Zealand, will also leave Wellington on Saturday for Apia. “The ‘go-slow’ policy is simply killing the coal trade,” remarked a coal dealer to a Dominion reporter. “I have not an ounce of coal and don’t know when I shall get any. People are wanting coal to do-their Christmas cooking, but I don’t know lio\y- they are going to get on. It’s really very hard.” Although the State Coal Depot is taking orders no delivery is guaranteed until at least, the middle of January.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1919, Page 3
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