HARBOUR FATALITY

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 79, 27 December 1928, Page 12

HARBOUR FATALITY

BODY RECOVERED The body of Charles A. Rodman was recovered in the harbour near the Jervois Quay wharf about noon yesterday. Rodman fell off the wharf shortly before 9 o’clock on Tuesday night. The water was dragged until 11 p.m., but no trace of the body could be found. Dragging operations were continued by three constables and two of the Harbour Board staff yesterday morning. Deceased, who was 50 years of age, was up till a fortnight ago staying at the Salvation Army Home at Miramar. A man with whom he had been on the wharf on Tuesday night was arrested for drunkenness, and was yesterday fined in the Magistrate’s Court. An inquest will be held.

A touch of humour was imparted to the proceedings at a recent bankruptcy meeting in Auckland, when debtor, a Dalmatian, was asked the name of his native town (reports the “Star”). It turned out to be a place called Vrgorc. As may be imagined, such a word is easier written than said. The pronunciation completely baffled the meeting, but it presented no difficulties to the native. As near as can be indicated, the sound is "virjoik,” but it is a real pronunciation puzzle to those who do uot know the Dalmation language. .Vrgorc is almost worthy to rank with that unpronounceable war-time classic, the Russian town of Przemyst, generally given as “schmitzel.”

The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to the Director of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis, Professor Nicholls, for the work he Ims done to save humanity from typhus. The prize is worth about £BOOO.