GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
A BOY'S MAD ACTS. By TdegrapV-PreM Association. Whangarei, Wednesday. A fourteen-year-old boy pleaded guilty at the juTenile court to plaoing obstructions on the railway line. He first put an iron bar across the rails, but the engine of the passenger train fortunately cut through the obstacle. Later the boy placed a second bar across the rails and weighted it with a heavy boulder, but the train men were on the look-out. He wa» committed to Burnham Industrial School. & ALCOHOLIC HOP-BEER. Gisborne, Wednesday. William Pollard was fined £4O and costs for brewing hop beer without a license on trie Matawai railway works. The beer contained 8.6 per cent, of alcohol. -» ANTI-MILITARISM. Huntly, Wednesday. The Huntly School committee, on the casting vote of the chairman, resolved: "That this committee, being opposed to militarism, declines to grant the application of the Defence authorities for the use of the school for the training of Territorials."
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19120222.2.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 201, 22 February 1912, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
153GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 201, 22 February 1912, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in