DOMINION NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1928, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS.

POLLUTION OF STREAM. VERDICT AGAINST DAIRY COY. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 21. A legal decision of considerable in.portance to dairy companies and farmers, was given by Justice Ostler yesterday in tlio case of C. V. Lonsdale, against Midliurst Dairy Company, wherein plaintiff claimed £ll7 damages for pollution of a stream witii tlie factory washings and casein whey. His Honour found for plaintiff, but reserved tlio question of damagos or of an injunction, to enablo tho parties to arrange amicably. .MOTOR. GARAGE BURNT. AUCKLAND, Sept. 20. A fire at Papatoetoo early this morning destroyed the motor garage of S. A. McPhnn. An explosion .of oil in drums made tlio firemen’s work dangerous, but they saved a billiard saloon behind the garage, and also the adjoining property. Insurances on property destroyed total £I,OOO.

BANKRUPT gets gaol. CHRISTCHURCH, Sopt. 20. Before Judge Adams, George Wilcox, who was in businoss in Ashburton as a garage proprietor and car agent) was sentenced to-day to three months’ imprisonment for having obtained £2O by credit from the Vacuum Oil Coy. without having disclosed the fact that lie was an Undischarged bankrupt. Ho was twice adjudicated bankrupt, at Auckland seven years ago, before ho went to Ashburton, and this year at Timam.

JUDGMENT BY CONSENT. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept,. 21. The Supremo Court this morning gavo judgment by consent for £290 with costs, in the ease of Retford v. Borough Council, for damage caused through. # a defective installation by defendants of a water-beating service. A copper float in a root cistern became detached through faulty soldering, allowing water to flood tlie premises and damage tlie stock. YOUNG WOMAN KILLED. BUN, INTO BY MOTOR-CYCLE NAPIER,' Sept. 21 'Miss Mary Rhodes, aged 22, was killed on the Taradale-Na pier Road last evening and Miss Eva Farvis received a broken arm as the. result of a motor cyclist, Neil Holderness, al-. legedly clashing into throe women. They walked along the street after attending a church social. Holderness is also seriously hurt and is unconscious in the Napier hospital. All tlie parties were travelling in the same direction.