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Kalk Bay Periodical Court

At the Periodical Court yesterday morning, before Mr. M. Jackson, RM.,
Carmodien Millar, merchant, resident at Lakeside, was accused with having hung
up for sale at his shop some dozen smoked herrings, which were considered by
the Municipal Health Officials as unfit for the use of man. The accused pleaded
guilty, stating that the fault was due to the negligence of his shop assistant.

His Worship, under the circumstances, fined the accused £3, or fourteen days
hard labour in default.

The fine was paid.

The Wynberg Times, 11 June 1904

The Mortuary

As far back as 1906 a request for a proper mortuary in Kalk Bay had been lodged

with the Colonial Secretary. A letter to the “S.A. News” on 6 September 1906,

headed “A Kalk Bay Scandal”, was brought to the attention of the Resident
Magistrate of Simon’s Town, Mr. George Boyes. The letter concerned the

drowning in Kalk Bay of a certain William Monach on 21 August 1906, and the
subsequent lack of a suitable place for keeping his body until the arrival of a

doctor to certify the cause of death. The police station was regarded as
unsatisfactory because it housed the police sergeant’s young family, and an

outcry had erupted after the previous drowning when the body was placed in the

field-cornet’s home. Boyes, after investigating this letter, immediately
recommended a small mortuary be built adjoining the Kalk Bay Police Station.

The Colonial Secretary replied: “no funds available”.

The question of a mortuary then appears to have gone quiet until 1916 when a

decision to build a mortuary alongside the Kalk Bay Police Station aroused
considerable animosity among the local residents. A petition was forwarded to

the Council protesting against the erection of a structure of this nature so close to
residential properties. The petition was signed by 23 prominent Kalk Bay