DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1924, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[»Y TilLl'lO 11A1M1 —I'KH rllKs'i ASSOCIATION. AIOTOK, CAR. KIR li. WKI.IdXO I'OX. Occ. f?. A xonmv. Inti initisiial case, in wltii It a motor car was partially destroyed by lire, resulted in a Coroner's in<|ttir.v into the circtini.slanccs. The finding was that the ear. belonging to the A.M.C. Motnr.s. Was damaged hy lire in the Kaiwjtrra (I urge mi 'dih. Scplcnthci', while being driven by W illiam Stewart Reid, without tlm authority of his employers. The S.AI. said the theory put forward by the poli.e was that, having already had one accident with the car the same evening, Itcid may have wanted to destroy tlm evidi nee of this hv hotline lire to it. and putting it over the (•urge, hut there was no tangible evidence to justify his finding that the lit'., was intentionally caused.

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