Hamilton docks.

This week, Dunkley & Pioneer Dairies Ltd. filed a Supreme Court writ against Somers Isles Shipping Ltd. and Stevedoring Services Ltd., claiming nearly $25,000.

Mr. Michael Dunkley, vice-president and general manager of the dairy, said the claim related to an accident on the docks shortly before Christmas.

Dunkley's was bringing a GMC Jimmy van to Bermuda aboard the container ship Somers Isles , he said.

While the van was being unloaded, stevedores dropped a load of steel on it, leaving the truck "a total write-off,'' Mr. Dunkley said.

But to no date, no settlement has been reached.

He felt the stevedores were mainly responsible, but he needed to name both companies in the court action, he said.

"If reason doesn't prevail, I'll have to take them to court.'' Mr. Michael Lohan, managing director of Stevedoring Services, declined to comment.

The dairy is represented by Appleby, Spurling & Kempe.

WAITER WAS WAY OVER THE LIMIT CTS Waiter was way over the limit A 27-year-old Austrian waiter was fined $400 and taken off the road for 12 months after pleading guilty to driving with more than twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood.

When he appeared in Magistrates' Court this week, Johannes Lang, of Secretary Lane, St. George's, admitted the offence that occurred on May 21.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Donald Grant, said that oficers spotted Lang on King's Square. He drove out of the parking lot without stopping, causing an incoming taxi to swerve in order to avoid a collision.

Lang then continued to the junction of York and Kent Street where he disobeyed a traffic sign.

A breath test at Hamilton Police station revealed he had 199 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 milligrams.

LAND PURCHASE GETS GO-AHEAD SEN Land purchase gets go-ahead Government's proposal to purchase a piece of land at 15 Parson's Road in Pembroke for $60,000, was approved in the Senate this week.

Senator Gary Pitman said the land was needed for the planned Pembroke Park.

Opposition Senator Terry Lister said he agreed wholeheartedly with the proposal and asked what the status of the adjoining five properties would be.

Senator Lister wanted to know how the figure of $60,000 was arrived at. He also criticised the state of a playground near the land which he said varied from good to bad to atrocious.

Government Senate leader the Hon. Gerald Simons said the Pembroke Park, when it was completed, would be of the same standard as other Government-maintained parks such as Blue Hole Hill, Shelly Bay and Fort Scaur.

Regarding the playground, Senator Simons said Pembroke Parish Council was responsible for its upkeep but he would see if the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Parks could help improve its present state.

MAN WAS DRUNK DRUING BREAK-IN CTS Man was drunk during break-in A 31-year-old Devonshire man appeared in court this week and pleaded guilty to breaking and entering with intent to steal.

Devaughn A. Dill admitted that on June 6 he unlawfully entered a residence on Berry Hill Road in Paget.

The house, which Dill had painted a month earlier, was occupied by a housekeeper who recognised Dill when he knocked on the door.

The woman asked Dill to leave the premises but instead he went around the back of the house and climbed in a window.

The woman ran out of the house and contacted Police who upon arriving found Dill locked inside the premises.

Dill told Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis that he was an alcoholic and at the time of the incident he was intoxicated.

The case was adjourned pending a social inquiry report.