Alleged Bigamy Charge.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1939, Page 6

Alleged Bigamy Charge.

A further remand to Mastertori on June 8 was granted in Wellington yesterday, when Walter Albert Kenneth Webb appeared on a charge of bigamy. It is alleged that Webb was married at Wanganui in September, 1.936, and that he went through a form of marriage at Martinborough in December of last year. Discovery of Bones. A human jawbone and several small bones were uncovered by workmen engaged on levelling sections behind State houses in Avondale on Tuesday, but a subsequent examination by a pathologist suggested that they had been buried for many years. With the discovery of the jawbone a search for other bones began, but beyond a few small bones, the largest not more than six inches long, and all discoloured, the searchers were unrewarded. The police were advised and the bones placed in a small cardboard box which was brought to Auckland for examination. Season for Opossums. Advice was received by the council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last night from the Department of Internal Affairs, that it had been decided to give effect to the council’s recommendation of an open season for opossums this year in the Wellington district. A letter from the Palmerston North Association of Fur Trappers advocated an open season on grounds that opossums had increased to a marked extent since the last open season in 1937. The association recommended a six-weeks season. It was sugested the season should not open till August 1. five weeks later than usual. The customary time of trapping did not allow of skins being taken when at their best, and the later opening would assist trappers to obtain a better class of skin, and one for which a reasonable price could be obtained on the market. Plea for the Godwit. Major J. R. Kirk, who has been one of the stalwart battlers for complete protection of the godwit during many years, is hopeful that the campaignwill be successful within a measur-. able, future. At .the recent annual meeting of the Forest and Bird Protection Society, he commended the Hon W. E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, for the limitation of the shooting season to two weeks, but declared that this wonderful bird had a right to be on the protected list the whole year round. It was a bird that did no harm and certainly did some good. Some years ago in the Nelson district, when the godwits had been scared away from one of their haunts, it was noticed that shellfish began to suffer from a disease. Examination showed that this disease was due to a worm which ordinarily formed part of the godwits’ diet. It was good to have Farewell Spit declared a sanctuary, but it was necessary to have another at Parenga, near the North Cape. He hoped that the Minister of Internal Affairs would recognise the need of such a sanctuary.

Family pride in an athletic son can reach great heights, but it was equalled by the partisanship of one father for the local team in which his son played scrum-half. When an important match was being played some distance from home, he asked his son to wire the result. That evening the telegram came, bearing the curt message: “Collarbone and one rib broken." "Yes. yes," exclaimed the father impatiently, "but he doesn't say who won."