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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 10

The Wellington ' branch of the Hotel and Restaurant ■\Vorkers' Union has asked Mr. Massey that the maximum penalty for Sunday trading be increased from £1 to £100. ' In support of this request the .union quotes a letter from the ex-Attorney-General, in the course of which it is stated that one of the difficulties of suppressing Sunday trading is that the maximum penalty is n fine of only £1, and in many cases this is not likely to act as a. deterrent. Tho Prime Minister hag referred the letter to the Minister in charge of the Police Department.

Private Tommy Sims had had pneumonia, and had been for some time in hospital, where they trtated him so well that, ho was much averse to the prospect of being discharged as ''cured. ,. One day the doctor was taking his temperature, and while Tommy had the thermometer in his mouth the doctor moved on, and h.oppenod to turn his back. Tomim saw his chance. He pulled the thermometer out of his mouth and popped it into a cup of hot tea, replacing it at the first sign of the medico's turning. When that worthy examined the thermometer ho looked first at. Tommy and then at tho thermometer ajid jrasped: "Well, my man. you're not, dead, but you ought to "be."