NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 305, 16 March 1928, Page 10

NEWS BREVITIES

Car Somersaults. —James Irvine, a draper’s traveller, of Palmerston North, was killed near Bunnythorpe yesterday when a back wheel of his car broke, and the car went over a bank. Bad Language Used-—Frank Onslow Chappell, aged 36, who appeaj-ed the Police Court to-day, was fined £3 for using obscene language, and £1 for refusing to quit licensed premise**. Memorial Opened.—The church at Maungatapere erected in memory of the men of the district killed in th* war, was opened to-day. There was a large attendance. Loan Proposa Abandoned. The Aka Aka Drainage Board has abandoned the propoiial to borrow £7,Bo‘* for further mail drain construction above the local cheese factory. Mental Patients Death.—At the n inquest on the death of Margaret El • ’ Marshall, a menial patient on parole who was found dead at New Brighton on February 2, a verdict, was returrec of suicide by inhaling coal gas wTile in an unsound state of mind. Settling Maori Rates.—At a conference at Kaitaia between th« Natives' Lands Consolidation Commission and the Mangonui County Council. the commission offered the council £2.->6o as a compromise on £19,000 outstand ing Maori rates. The council express {disappointment, but premised to consider the offer.