Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Salvage Claim - : Tne work performed by the Eastbourne B.orough Counoil ferry | steamer Cobar in assisting the Wangahella when she lay stranded on BarretPs Reef may result in a claim for salvage money by the council. At a -meeting last nighu, [ written legal opinion on the mat-. | ter was considered in committee, I and the whole question referred.to [ a sub-committee for further con- [ sideration. | Lost Qverboard \ ! A passenger, Miss Phyllis CampI bell, of 22 stewart Street, ChristI church, .is believed to have been ! lost overboardi from the . inter- • island ferry St&amer Rangatira on I a trip from Lyttelton to Weliing- | ton on Monday night. Miss OampI bell, who was travelling aione, was I missing when th,e Rangatira berth1 ed at Wellirigton on Tuesday 1 morning. Some items of luggage ■ marKed Campbell were found on board. The Wellington police are maxing ipquirigs. Tnis is the third . case of a disappearance from an inter-island fqrry during this month. Bullock at Large ' A Hereford • puflock ran amok in ; Fitzroy (New Plymouth) on Tuesday, scattering' pedestnans, wreoking two bicycies, sligntly damaging a parked car and grazmg a drover's horse. It was one of a herd being driyen from Warea, 22 miles down the coast from New 1 plymouth, to the Waitara freezing worKs. Near the Fitzroy Pqst Office, I tne bullocs;, prpbably disturbed by 1 the main street trafhc at'ter its I iong journey in the heat, ran wildi When aimost exhausted, the bul1 lock was coaxed down the road | wrth encouragifig bumps. from a 1 triick. It made one last denant 2 eflort, then lay down. Fmaiiy. I a|t.er three hours' excitement, the I bullock was lodged in the Waiwai kaiho stockyards.

§ Women Driyers i fhe. _,opinion---popular for many | years, especiahy aifiong men — that I women drivers are inferior to men * J drivers is not supported by the ex- | perience of a group of investigatI mg tr-afflo offlcers in Invercargill, a There were several minor accidents I in the city at the week-end, most 1 of which were caused by. the I failure of motorists to give way to . | traffic on the- right. While investi- | gating one such accident, a party I of men stood for a period at the S intersection, observing the "man- | ners" of the traffic which passed1 While they stood, nine cars passed i — eight driven by men and one by § a woman. Of the nine, eight fafi- ! ed completely to look to their right I as they crossed the intersection. I The eight ofl'enders were all me'n. | Only the woman did the correct I thing. I Judge Retires, I Tne Hon. Mr. Justice Blair stepI ped dawn from the Supreme Cour-t I Benc-h yesterday morning in WelI lington for the -last tipie and shook I hands with more than 100 mem- | b'ers of the legal profession who asI s.epibled to farewell him on his reI firement- The Attorney-General | (Mr. Mason) , in wig apd gown, led I the tributes paid to his Honour. Ife I expressed for the Government apI preciation of Sir Arehibald's 20 | years' s,ervice as a Judge and reI ferred to the humanitarian quali ities of his Honour'sTwbrk as chaitI man.of the Prisons Board. Tributes | were also paid by Mr, p. B- Coohe, I K,C., president of the New Zealand i Law Society, who referred in parI ticular to his great help given to I the late Sir Truby King and to his I great national mqvement, and by | Mr. j. R. Bennett, president of the ^ Wellington Law Society.