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Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 12

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kaponga -Trouble—men’s notices accepted. After conference between the Union 'Company representatives, the Seamen’s Union, and the dissatisfied members of the Kaponga (says an Auckland Association' message) the captain has arranged to accept the men’s notices. The officers and engineers speak highly of the cook, with whom the men declined to sail. Labor is plentiful, and no difficulty is expected in filling the vacancies. The Kaponga is expected to sail this afternoon. FORTY DIVORCES IN THREE HOURS. Forty divorce cases were disposed of by two judges in three and n-half hours at Auckland this morning.—Press Association. BOAIIDING-HOUSE KEEPER’S LIABILITY. A hoarding-house keeper’s liability for injury that might befall a lodger■ nas dealt with by .Ur Justice Alpers to-day in deciding a ease in which William Charles Irwin and his infant son claimed from Thomas' Hannah and Lis wile £157 special and £JSO general damages on. ttoo ground that while boarding at defendants’ place at Otaki, in January, iO2-!. Jack iiAvin, now aged four, walked into some hot ashes and was so severely burned that ho lost all tho toes of both feet. The Judge held that the child had the right to bo in the yard, and gave judgement for £’soo.—Wellington P.A. telegram. >