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Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1919, Page 4

The following additional subscriptions have been received towards the Hawera Peace Memorial: MoGruer, Bone and Co. £SO, Welsh and McCarthy £SO, Bennett and Sutton £25, F. Gillanders £25, Westaway and Co. £2O, Duffil and Gibson £2O, J. Hopkirk £ls, Adamson and Robb £lO, Purser and Sons £lO, R. T. Bullock £lO.

The big motor car conveying the mails from New Plymouth to Wellington on Saturday had a very heavy load, and was the objfect of interest to many bystanders. One gentleman remarked to the Hawera Star that it reminded him of the days over thirty years ago when the mails used to be carried by the coaches In addition to the mails the car had five or six through passengers to Wellington.

The 12$ year-old boy who broke into the Kaupokonui store, and who subsequently obtained, goods by means of a false order from a Hawera shop-keeper, was charged with the latter offence at Hawera on Saturday. He pleaded guilty. The Magistrate decided to give the boy another chance, and adjourned the case for three months, and in the interval defendant was orded to report to the police once a week, and is not to be allowed out of doors after dark, except in the company of an adult.—Star. ' An inquest concerning the death of Mrs. McSweeney, who died as the result of a motor accident recently, was held at Elthara on Friday before the acting-coro-ner, Mr. W. C. F. Carncross, and a jury. The following' verdict" was returned; "That deceased met her death through a motor car accident." The foreman stated that the jury were of opinion that provision should be made in the Motor Regulations Act for some universal method of Indication by the driver of intention to turn or stop.

The Normany Dairy Company expects to be able to pay out a total of 2s lHd over the whole season. Last season the pay-out was Is IOHd. In recognition of the good work done by the manager (Mr. A. J. Hoperoft), especially during the epidemic, the sharehlodera voted him a bonus of 20 guineas, and the directors were also authorised to spend up to £350 on a motor car fotjiia use. His wife was voted ten guinea" for her help during the epidemic. Suppliers are not usually appreciative of the work of their dairy managers, and it is a pleasure to record treatment so exceptionally liberal.

A serious accident occurred on the Mangahume Hill on Friday. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. West, when returning to Pihama in their gig, met a motor lorry at the hlil. While the vehicles were in the act of passing a motor car attempt*! to go between them, with the result that it collided with the gig. Mrs. West was seriously, and Mr. West slightly injured. The occupants of the oar escaped unhurt. The gig was badly smash' ed, and the fore carriage of the motor car considerably damaged.—Star,