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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7281, 7 October 1933, Page 6

Charged with bringing milk into tho city for consumers otherwise than in compliance with his City Council license, Maurice S. G. Monk was convicted by Mr E. Page, S.M., and fined £lO at Wellington yesterday.

A large wooden house in Cambria street, Nelson, owned by Mr C. Newman and occupied by Mr G. Oldershaw, was gutted by fire on Wednesday morning. No one was homo at the time and the fire secured a good holdbeforo the alarm was given. The insurance on the house is £IOOO and on tho contents £2BO.

When a highway was reconstructed now it whs, almost always a condition that it be bitumlnisCd, said Mr. M. H. Wynyard, motorists' representative on the Mhin Highways Board, in an address On the Work of the board at the annual meeting of Frhnklin members of the Automobile Association. Tho bitumen surface, he said, reduced the wear apd did away with the dust. Local tat had been used in sealing the Bombay deviation. It had come from Auckland, and had proved quite satisfactory. The deviation would bo bitumenised later.

John McPherson, aged 52, who had no known relatives and who was a farm labourer, fell from the running-board of a car at Methven last Saturday and died in the Ashburton Hospital yesterday morning without regaining consciousness. He was being given a lift from the racecourse to the town when he fell, fracturing his skull.

A Maori chisel, made of stone and beautifully shaped and finished, was recently found by Mr. J. Adams, of Onetangi, Waiheke Island, as he was hoeing in his garden. Although made of stone the chisel had been worked to a very sharp edge. A number of Maori relics, including stone axes, and also some skulls, have been found on the island in the past.

The Address-in-Beply debate was concluded in the House of Bepresentatives yesterday when the chief speaker was the Prirao Minister (Bt. Hon'. G. W. Forbes). The debate was spread over eight sitting days, and fifty speakers took part. The House divided on three amendments which were hostile to the Government’s policy, but in each division the Coalition had a comfortable majority.