New Zealand News.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 February 1918, Page 6

New Zealand News.

TOTALISATOR LAW.

AN UNUSUAL CASE,

CHEISTCHURCH, February 5

A case of an unusual nature was mentioned in the Magistrate's Court, to-day, before Mr. Bailey, S.M., when Mr. W. H. E. Wanklyn, secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club, was charged with permitting investments to be put on to the totalisator after the time for starting a race. He was further charged with taking into account money put on the machine after the time for starting a race. Chief Detective Mellveney appeared for the police, and Mr. Donnelly for the defendant. On Mr. Donnelly's application the case was adjourned until Friday.

ALLEGED CONCEALMENT OF

BIRTH,

DUNEDIN, February 5,

A sequel to the discovery of the body of an infant in a dam near Waiwera South is the arrest of a young woman named Mary Geary, of Tapanui, On a charge of concealment of birth. She was for about four years a domestic in the service of Mr. Telford, of the Clifton Estate, On arrival in Dunedin to-night she was taken to the Hospital.

A FATAL ACCIDENT

WAIHI, this day. Albert Ernest Armstrong, aged 47, broke his neck by falling when engaged shaking cement in a shed used in construction -works.