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PRICE OF BUTTER. (Australian Press Association). (United Service). SYDNEY. December 21. Owing to droughty conditions, tlm wholesale price, ol butter has inn eased by half-penny to Is l(Jd per pound. ABDUCTION CASE. SOME SORDID DETAILS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) .MELBOURNE, December 21. There were amazing disclosures in the abduction case against Albert Poardon, married. Evidence wasjgiven that he cleared out in 1928 with \ mlet Barry, then aged twelve, a ward ol the State in the care of PeardonT wife, since when he had lived with the gill as man and wife in another .State. The girl is now the mother of two children, aged four years, and twenty months. The girl gave evidence that she was as much to blame as Reardon, who deposed that he believed she was over sixteen, otherwise- lie would not have taken her away. Reardon was committed for trial. SENTENCED TO DEATH. FOR CRIMINAL ASSAULT. SYDNEY, December 20. The Full Court to-dav dismissed the appeal on behalf of Martin Jacobson of Wov Wov. against conviction and sentence to death for criminally assaulting his former fiancee, which case •aused a great stir owing to the allegation that"the girl was the consenting party. JOCKEY SERIOUSLY INJURED. MELBOURNE, December 20. J. Harrison, pony jockey, was thrown on his head at Ascot races to-day and was galloped on. His skull was fractured and his condition is critical. lie is a brother of the well-known iockey. George Harrison. X.S.W. CHAMPIONSHIP. SYDNEY, December 20. . The annual' championship regatta of the ■ New South "Wales Rowing -Vs soeiation, is being held on Saturday, flic principal events are the championship eight and champion skulls. The latter, which is timed to start at 4.40 includes the New Zealanders, Jackson. Moulding, Stewart. Scott and the Olympic representative Pearce. PLANE CRASHES. OCCUPANTS UXHCRT. SYDNEY, Dec. 20. A moth aeroplane, carrying Captain Lcgatt, and a Hying pupil. Stanley Gaffney, crashed into a fence at Mascot- to-day, and was wrecked. r l he occupants escaped unhurt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1928, Page 6
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