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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17882, 1 October 1923, Page 13

A word of Warning against the use of electrical equipment was sounded bv Mr McGregor at the Bluff Harbbiir Board meeting on .Friday, | when the question of tenders for eleoI trical goods Were under consideration. Mr McGregor stated that when the elecI trio light had'iieen installed in his own i premisses apparently materials of Japanese manufacture had been used and there was, he thought, a great risk of fire. Only recently he had had occasion to examine one of the switches in his residence and it was so heated that had it been left very lone a risk of fire might have arisen. Mr McGregor mentioned that he hsUP noticed that the Power Board was procuring some material of Japanese manufacture and he thought in view of the trumpery natur* of the material and the grave risk of fire that it was •& very unwise policy to procure such equipment. Illustrating his rcoint that the mentality of the Scot differed from, if it did not transcend that of other nationalities, the Chief at Friday night's meeting of the St. Andrew's Scottish Society, Irtvercargill, told the following story: —A countryman of his arrived in London and with the proverbial saxpence spent a late night with a crony. Afterwards falling among thieves he accounted for half a dozen including a> few policemen, with the result that he was hauled before the Magistrate. "I've a good mind to give up three months," , said the occupant of the Bench. "Ye cairna'," answered the culprit. "flTny?" Queried the astonished beak. "Because 'm on)/ going to be in London fdr I three days," was the answer.