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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14235, 4 December 1909, Page 7

One of the parties in a libel action before the Wellington Supreme Court was a speaking demonstration of the plain assertion that a man in his time may play many parts, says the Post. This particular actor on the world's stage was in the beginning a sailor man before the mast, and since then has turned his hands to many things. Under examination he admitted to having.been at one time or other in his life a hotelkeeper, carpenter, painter, bridge-builder, hotel porter, head keeper in a menagerie, a wild beast collector and a farm hand. Now, for want of better, and because he objects to a lazy life, he is a railway hand in Queensland. In times when not thus occupied he has assisted to turn H.M.S. Foudroyant into scrap-iron, and assisted in the erection of the Blackpool CEngland) Towgf, •