DANCER ELECTROCUTED.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20505, 26 March 1932, Page 15

DANCER ELECTROCUTED.

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LONDON, March 23. A young dancer'living at Watford was found dead in a, bath with an electric hair-dryer clasped to her breast, which was badly scorched: • The Coroner returned "a verdict that the girl was electrocuted Owing to the metal part of the dryer coming into contact with the bath water.

There are more and ■ more reasons for believing that the Lang Ministry will soon be no more "(wrote the Sydney correspondent of the Melbourne "Argus" on March 17th). It is thought that its .load of -political misdeeds will eventually smother it, and that it will go down. amid odours that will cause most people to hold their noses. The refusal yesterday to appoint a- Royal Commission to vindicate the honour of the Ministry has further incensed the people—not all the people, such as the Ministry's Parliamentary supporters apparently, for, as heretofore, they obeyed the crack of the whip and came to heel. There has been enough talk about tin-hare scandals to move most members of Parliament who value their reputation to insist upon a clearing up. .When the clearing up is refused only one conclusion can be drawn. The current impression is that there are souls in pawn to the Premier'and his policy. The criticisms of that policy, almost make one- think of burning brimstone.

Of the total of £333,729 2s 4d of City rates levied, the sum of £261,757 had been received up to the closing of business on Thursday afternoon. The amount received on Thursday was about £9OO, and this brought the proportion of rates.collected to rates levied up to 78.43 per cent. There is now £75,772 outstanding. There are only "two days, next Wednesday and Thursday, on which City rates can" bo .paid before the 10 per cent, penalty is added, and only two days in which to reach last year's proportion of 91.17 per" cent, of rates collected to rates levied- on the day prior to the imposition of the penalty.