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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2793, 22 May 1911, Page 2

One of the conditions at the recent dog trial at Te Wera, away beyond Stratford, was that in the working of their dogs the men must not use any unpubhshable words or phrases—if they did so disqualification fell on them at once. Things went very well while the dogs were doing as they were expected ; but when the canines failed to do the proper thing it was no uncommon thing to hear one of the men let out a sharp unprintable term, and then stand on his hat or contort himself into • sundry shapes on remembering that' he had thereby disqualified his dog.

A young man named John A. Hill was arrested at Te Awamutu on a cha°rge of failing to comply with the terms of his probation at Waihi, where he was convicted of theft, and later was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for false pretences. »He was remanded in custody to appear at Waihi.