NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Force of Habit.

"It would only come out when you were drunk if you were in the habit of using it when you are sober," said Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., in fhe Magistrate's Court today, to a man whose reply to a charge of r using obscene language was that he was intoxicated at the time. Direction-finder Tests. 'Before leaving Wellington yesterday afternoon for Sydney, the Union Company's passenger liner Marama spent soino time in the neighbourhood of Somes Island testing her recentlyinstalled 'radio direction-finder. The ship left her berth' at the Queen ',8 Whaif shortly after 3 o'clock, and signals were' exchanged between her and the Bangatira, lying at the L Clyde Quay Wharf. After' about an hour, during which the Marama's apparatus was fully tested, the ship continued her journey and left harbour shortly before 5 p.m. Collision with Whale. A whale was impaled on the bows of the Shell Company's coastal tanker Paua when the vessel was a few miles north of East Cape at 9 o'clock on Thursday morning, on her way to Auckland (leports the Auckland "Star"). The whale, which appeared to be of the thresher kind, was about 15ft long, light grey towards the head and dark towards the tail, and white under the body. The engines of the tanker were shopped and Had' to be reversed before the whale fell off the bows and sank. On the previous evening two whales hacj been seen near the Paua. ' - - "■