GIRL ASSAULTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 517, 21 November 1928, Page 13

GIRL ASSAULTED

fourth edition

SERIOUS CHARGE FOLLOWS OVERPOWERED IN THE TEA-TREE accused to be brought TO AUCKLAND S (From Our Own Correspondent) WHANGAREI, To-day. A serious case of rape is reported from Kaihu, near Dargaville* It i# stated that on Monday a girl of 14 was assaulted by a man who had waited for her in the tea-tree and overpowered her when she passed by. The case was reported to the police and an arrest was made at Waiotira by Detective Robertson, of Whangarei. This morning, at the Whangarei Magistrate’s Court, before Mr. A. H. Curtis, J.P., Frederick Thomas Kelly May was charged with stealing a bicycle valued at £5 and a diamond ring and a cheque to the value of £4 10s. He was also charged with committing rape. The accused was remanded to appear at Dargaville on November 29. May will be brought to Auckland this evening. Another charge may bo preferred against him. This is the second serious case of this kind which has occurred recently in the North. An elderly woman was assaulted over a week ago at Ramarama. Her house was entered by a masked man who forced her to write a cheque. Late Commercial beef market easier WESTFIELD STOCK SALE VERY HEAVY YARDING |T WESTFIELD, 2.30 p.m A decidedly easier tone in the market for beef was registered at Westfield to-day. The warmer weather of the last week or so has put additional strength into the feed, and an increased number of cattle are now available for the market. The yarding was the heaviest for several months. A yarding of over 400 head of steers comprised a big percentage of wellfinished medium-weight cattle, which were drawn from all parts of the province. Waikato graziers were responsible for the weightiest cattle. Several small lines of handy-weight steers came forward from the Bay of Plenty. The usual representative lots was drawn frofn the North, light-weight cattle predominating in the offering from those parts. , The buyers for the two big butchering firms were again the strongest operators, especially on the highestpriced lines of quality stock. Exporters were interested in the older medium prime and inferior finished cattle, although the market for the greater part of the time appeared above their limits, which were not up to those of a few weeks ago, when they came in for a few special orders. lines were passed in. Extra choice young stock met with keen competition, selling at up to 43s a 100, compared with over 45s last week. The dearest line of the day, Wut the best quality, was a truck of exceptionally choice prime two-year-old Herefords, which went to R. and W. Hellabv. Ltd., for £ls 12s 6d. Big leggy steers mad© little more than 35s a 1001 b. • Top price of the day was secured for two prize bullocks, winners at the recent Waikato show, sold on account R. Aladill, Hamilton. These went to the Auckland Meat Company for £2O Ls, a price well below the figure they would have brought a few weeks ago. The best price for a sizeable line of heavy-weight bullocks was £lB 15s. A line of exceptionally choice prime solid P.A. steers, on account Angus Gibbons, made to £ls 15s. Handy-weight well finished cattle, on account R. E. Grieve, Te Teko, made from £l3 7s 6d to £ls 15s. Similar cattle from R. C. Morgan, Matamata, made from £l3 7s 7d to £l4 17s 6d ," rs * Main, Tamahere, was responsible for a rather well finished line of medium-weight steers, which made w> *ls ss. An aggregate yarding of approximately 440 cows and heifers comprised some of the best cattle seen for months. There was a big percentage of well f dair y cows. Several lines 01 choice station sorts were included hMhe entry. Iho cow and heifer market showed a. decline of up to £3 a head. Exceponally well finished heifers, that a ortmght ago would have met with «en competition up to £l4, sold at f /pk® best line of P.A. heifers yarded r some time came forward on ac- \°. unt of the estate of Alec Bell. - angatangi. The top price for the £in comprised 54 head, was h*if I4S Heavy prime Shorthorn ma<Je to £ll, medium-weight 17s 6d C ° WS and heifers 5s to £9 seavys eavy yarding of calves com- * ea several pens of choice runners. nn se met with a ready sale, one calf „ ■ aoc ount of R. Brownlee, Pukekohe, is 8 T to oe » Newmarket, for £ 7 Heavy vealers made to £5 3s, um to £4 4s, light £2 5s to £2 ~_j small 32s to 445, and very young unfinished from Bs. Approximate l ,y four runs of sheep ' a-me forward. SOUTHERN EXCHANGES TO-DAY’S SALES Press Association >'l'L linflton -—Ch ’Change: New Zealand Hrew»ri es ’ ’- 3s - Reported: New Zealand Chri?? ?' o4s 3,1 'three lots). stchurch On 'Change: Ooldsbrotlgh ,'jj, ■* , 5d l New Zealand Breweries, .-,J ' , pels ->: Staples Brewery, 41s 9d; Zinc Sugar, £sa 17s 6d; Electro Ho!d e !,?5 e L ) ', 363 2d < 2 P'ls l. 36s sd; Us Paid)“us‘»d 3aS 3di Kaiapoi Woollen AUCTION NOTES Oreh n w, instructed by Dir. A. eeji''.’ w “° is giving up business, will OQnJJ auction on the premises at the Mo*!!* °* Jersey and Howe Streets on rajLrM y ’ ovem ber 26, at 1 p.m., the and P lant of a butchery-