LATE LOCALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 73, 17 March 1914, Page 6

LATE LOCALS.

An action for alleged slander, in which two. Waipawa doctors, Deck and Reed, figure as plaintiff and defendant respectively, is being heard at the Napier Supreme Court. Dr. Deck claims £5Ol damages for statements contained in letters written by Reed, in which the latter charged Deck witli a breach of professional etiquette in wittingly intruding on one of Reed’s patients. The cause for action arose during the smallpox scare, Dr. Deck visiting the patient in question in his capacity as public vaccinator. —P.A.

A record for unbroken and faithful service on the staff of a newspaper may surely be claimed” for a Stratford Evening Post typographer. Yesterday Mr Enoch Wood Hancock, whoso name will be familiar to readers of tho Post in his official capacity as publisher, attained his typographical majority, i.e., it is twenty-one years since Mr Hancock joined tho staff. , From the stage of “the Devil” to that of publisher and a chair at the linotype is a migration that does not occur with many. That “Eenee” will “assemble” on similar “lines” for many years to come is the sincere wish of all his comrades on the staff.