Cape Palliser Tragedy.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1939, Page 6

Cape Palliser Tragedy.

Though a daily patrol of the vicinity of the tragedy has been carried out, no sign has been found of the body of Mr Sefton Anderson, who was drowned while fishing at Cape Palliser last weekend. A heavy sea again came up yesterday, and with the lapse of time the possibility of finding the body becomes more remote. Snails on Roadway. Causing considerable inconvennience to motorists and other road users, an army of snails proved an obstacle to traffic on Foxton Line between Boundary Road and West Street during the lunch hour on Thursday. The thousands of snails looked like a covering of fresh gravel on the surface of the bitumen. They occupied over half the road surface, and as the casualties increased in number, the wet street became very greasy and careful driving was called for.

Unsatisfactory Proof. “It is a pretty worthless way of proving service,” said Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court in Auckland when a husband with some hesitation identified handwriting on an affidavit of service. "Some day. someone is going to fall in about it," his Honour continued. “This business of the spouse standing up and saying. 'That is the handwriting of the other spouse,’ is developing into a meaningless farce, and some day it will be pronounced insufficient."