COMMONWEALTH CABLES.
THE PUNCHBOWL MYSTERY
[By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright [United Press Association.]
Sydney, May 2,
At the enquiry into the death of the girl Porter, Chard, a bread-carter, gave evidence that he was very friend ly with the family of the girl, am’ drove her in his cart twice. He nevci at any time made an appointmen with her, and did not see her on tin day she disappeared. He knew noth mg about the cause of death .
The coroner returned an open ver diet, but agreed that it was not ; case of murder. MATERNITY BONUSES. Melbourne, May 2. The Crown case in the alleged maternity bonus fraud is that in . . s seventeen specified instances two nurs es either made claims where then was no birth, or claimed where tlu mothers did not intend to plaim. Re garding Dr. Erson, he admitted thaf hb singned bonus forms in blank athe request of the nurses, but deniec doing so wholesale. Of fifty birt' certificates he forwarded to the Regis trar he had attended only twenty three.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 99, 3 May 1913, Page 5
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174COMMONWEALTH CABLES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 99, 3 May 1913, Page 5
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