DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1918, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

DEFAULTING RESERVISTS SENTENCED. By Telegraph.-Press Aswciatien. Dunedin, Last Niifbt Sentences on the military reserves arrested recently at Elfin Bay were promulcted to-day as :-. Pri 4te WUban Douglas Parston and William Wallace Yeoman, absent from the Medical Board without leave, two years' impnsonment in H.M. prison, with hard labor; Private Laurence Barton, failia? to concentrate at Wangamii, two years' imprisonment in H.M. prison, with hard labor. - CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER JAILS. Aiii. « Dunedin, Last Night, 11. i ho Clty ' Police Court,.Ellis Matthew Peacock, the driver of a motor-cav was charged with manslaughter, as the result of the fatal accident to Thoraiw Lloyd on November 28, deceased beinc knocked down by the car driven by ac cused. The Magistrate held that no criminal neglect had been shown, and he dismissed the charge. EXTRA DAILY EXPRESS TRAIN. Wellington, Las* Night. An extra daily express on the North Island Main Trunk will run from each end from December 18 until January 8. THE REPATRIATION' BOARD. ■ Wellington, last Night The .Hon. Henries, chairman of the Repatriation Board, has announced that the board has appointed Mr. J. R. Samson Director of Repatriation for three months, and Mr 3. D Gray is to te secretary.