NEWS AND NOTES.
‘•'ls that a dress or a handkerchief?” queried the Bench when a woman’s garment, was exhibited in the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court recently. “I would call it a dress,” replied Detective .J. Walsh. “It looks more like a pocket handkerchief,” remarked the Bench. A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest at Auckland on Edward Reid, aged 40, who was killed instantly when a steel grame weighing two tons, which was beinj'g lifted with a sling from trucks at, Newmarket railway workshops on May 11, crushed him to the ground.In the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court on Thut -sday, Trevor Walter Moss was cha rgcd with negligently driving a mote »r cycle on Woodhara road on April 18, and causing the death of Marf garet O’Connor. The police alleged that accused had been riding wi ithout a light and at an excessive speed. A girl of 17 years had be! m riding on the pillion. Defence was a denial of the allegations. >5 Accused pleaded not guilty- and was?, committed for trial,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3809, 23 June 1928, Page 4
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174NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3809, 23 June 1928, Page 4
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