General News

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28479, 8 January 1958, Page 8

General News

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A boardinghouse keeper at Bridlington (Yorkshire), a seaside resort, yesterday told a Court he thought visitors coming for a week should have a bath beforehand. Mr Thomas Stevenson said he and his wife did not supply visitors with baths. “Nobody has ever asked for one yet, but we supply hot water for washing and shavijig,” he said. He was giving evidence during an action in which he was awarded damages against a woman who said she had to cancel booked rooms because of her husband’s illness.—London. Court Of Appeal Preparation for the Court of Appeal, which in its new form will begin sittings next month, is being made in the Wellington Supreme Court building. The bench in the No. 2 courtroom, with its canopy, coat of arms, and red hangings, has been dismantled and a larger one will replace it The old bench in this courtroom was large enough for only three judges. The new one will be wide enough for five, chairs. Quintuplet Calves Quintuplet calves were born to an eighteen-month-old AyrshireJersey cross heifer owned by Mr E. Wells at Waiuku on January 3. The calves, two bulls and three heifers, weighed from 191 b to 291 b each, with an average weight of 251b.—(P.A.) Emergency Call An urgent telephone message less than 24 hours before the liner Wanganella was due to sail from Sydney for Auckland last Friday brought Captain J. Gilbertson unexpectedly out of retirement to take command of the ship. Huddart Parker Line officials asked Captain Gilbertson to take command after the regular master (Captain H. F. Norrie) has become suddenly ill with pneumonia. Captain Gilbertson officially retired in April of last year, but he agreed to take command of the liner in the emergency.— (P.A.) % Young Helper Students, school teachers, a dress designer, an eight-year-old schoolgirl, housewives and a chemist are in the archaeological party which is excavating the site of a moa hunters’ settlement on the Coromandel Peninsula. The schoolgirl, Majorie McKee, of Auckland, is the daughter of one of the archaeologists, and lends a hand with the digging and with meals. She has just returned from England. There is also an American Fulbright scholar in the narty. Miss Sue Hirsh, who is a ballad singing enthusiast and plays calypso songs on a guitar. Port Of Pukenui Piles are being driven for a more modern wharf at Pukenui, the little port which serves a fastgrowing farming district on the eastern side of the far northern peninsula. The wharf will replace one erected 14 years ago but which proved to be too small to handle the amount of cargo now landed at Pukenui. Most of this is for land development purposes. Mr A. Wagener, the wharfinger at Pukenui, said the amount of cargo being handled at present is only one-twentieth of what it was before the gum-digging industry declined. However, with rapid land development and the possibility of afforestation being carried out on the sand dune country, there was a need for better port facilities.