SHIP'S COOK'S TROUBLES

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 13, 15 July 1918, Page 8

SHIP'S COOK'S TROUBLES

CEEW FINDS FAULT WITH THE v c soup. ; .■■■■■■■/"

Music-hall artists, comedians of all tyjSea, and sketchers in 1 the world's coifiic papers, still make good use of ibe' vary old joke about the mixture that was called soup,, but tasted like else. Joseph VelLa, a cook on a sailing ship now in port, however, \failed to see the humour of the situation j.whfen the quality of his soup was ques-: (tibned by the boatswain of the vessel ion".! Saturday, and this ,morning he appeared at the Magistrate's Court to give evidence against John Matsen, the boatsfwain. His head was swathed in band:ag§£. His story was that Matsen came. ,to*him as he' was standing outside the ■'gafiey door after, preparing dinner, and, jpoijiting to a saucepan, asked : "Do you ■:oail;Hhis soup?" Witness answered that 'heEdid so, whereupon Matsen said'that hetidid not, and picking up the; saucepan struck him on the head with it, inflicting a wound an 'inch and a-half , lorjg and spilling the contents generously over his head and shoulders. Matsen ■■did-"not deny the assault, and said :, "I j-did 1; not' intend to strike him. The soup ;was not cooked, we were hungry,' and I'l'ikt my temper. I was going to pour it over his head to remind him. Mr. F. V.'iFraser, S.M., imposed a fine of £3, in "default fourteen days .in gaol, and made an' order that half the fine is to be,,paid to the cook by way of compensation: '.'"■'•.. ■