BELOW- THE PLIMSOLL MARK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 156, 26 March 1908, Page 8

BELOW- THE PLIMSOLL MARK.

• ■ Auckland, March 25., Inez Soaros, master of the scow Alma, was charged at tho Police Court this afternoon, with loading his vessel below tho PlimsoU mark on one trip towards' the end or last year. According to the testimony for the prosecution, Soares's vessel was lymgvat the Eailway .Wharf when inspected, and was found to be sitting in the water .with the load line submerged, and with only about two" inches of freeboard, whereas at the least slio should have' shown some ten inches of freeboard/ Tho master declared that when 'ho loft'Ngunguru,'with 114 tons of coal on board, his vessol was high enough, and' ho could not understand how she could have been sitting so deep as tho prosecution alleged : when lying at tho Railway Wharf. After hearing tho evidence, His Worship decided'' to convict Scares, aid fined, him £2, and costs £1 Bs. NEWS IN BRIEF ... Christchurclij March 25.. ' The weather cleared ,up yesterday • aftetw noon. To-day it is sunny, but. the'tempera.. turo is low. • .•• • " \ r ' , nt'' Timaru, March 25. ' Tho South Canterbury Master 'Bakers'' Association decided yesterday to..adopt the cash coupon system. It will probably coma into operation in a (month or, six weeks. '• , ' '■ Talhape', March 25.'-. ' At I ;the S.M. C(>urt■ this •_ morning,' 'Ah Hung', on .ttio charges .concerning opium, wai 'fiiicd 21s. and costs £7. ; ■ Some churches arc : never once' dcccntly ventilated from December to' May. The saino old air, with an ever richer crop'of germs, is rolieatod aiid served up again every"-Sim-day. The " odour of sanctity " is the' rofiduo of-'thd breaths and-perspiration of successive generations.' Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but it is sometimes an astonishingly' long step- behind it;—" Saturday Even, ing' Post," Philsdelphia. ;•