General News

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27441, 30 August 1954, Page 10

General News

Power Cuts There will be a power cut in only one area on the Christchurch Municipal Electricity Department’s roster this evening. It will be in area D South Brighton, Bromley, Woolston. and Sumner. Tomorrow evening, the cut will be in area E—north St. Albans, Shirley, Papanui, Belfast, North Beach, and New Brighton. Hormone Face Creams Women .older than 40 can take years off their looks by the use of hormone creams and cosmetics', said Dr. Harvey Graham in the September issue of “Family Doctor,” but he warned: ’"The precise instructions worked out by the doctors who advise the manufacturers must be followed exactly. It might prove dangerous to exceed the dosage.” Dr. Graham also quoted the opinion of an expert, who believes that if a woman of 40 should determine to use a hormone cream for the rest of her life, which might be another 25 to 35 years, the practice would be potentially dangerous. Dr. Graham advised women who ■ find no appreciable improvement after two months to stop using the creams as such women would never benefit from them. “It looks as if hormone creams are here to stay. They won’t make women younger They will not take years off their age But it seems that safely and harmlessly they may well take years off their looks.”— London, August 29. Instructions Followed Post Office officials investigating a disputed telephone account found a small boy at Wimbledon, a London suburb, had calmly telephoned a New York toyshop to ask how to work a i7i_ he did not q uite understand. It all began as an argument over a £lO account for a call to New York. The subscriber said he did not even know anyone in New York and he was not at home the day the call was supposed to have been made. But the Post omce stuck to its guns. Eventually it was found that the New York number rung was that of a toyshop. When the toyshop manager said the caller was a small boy, the story came out. On the hd of an American-made constructional toy the subscriber had sou was the label: “If in difficulties in assembling this toy please ring New York . . So he Qid just that—but his parents never generous Post Office, when W? the ? tory ’ cut the bill by half. What the subscriber father did to his son is not divulged.—London, Aug. 29. Earthquakes at Rotorua A rapid series of 10 earthquakes was experienced in Rotorua between noon The noisiest, at 12,30 p.m., rattled windows. No damage has been reported. Mr J. Healy, the tremors had no connexion with Mount Ngauruhoe. They appeared to come from the north. The 12.30 p m tremor was the severest he had felt this year, said Mr Healy.—(P.A.) Bargain Bookcase A second-hand bookcase bought by L J re <? ro^I L at Bec kenham, Kent, as stage furnishing, contained a first SSL, 0 ' Holls hed's “Chronicles of England on a locked bottom shelf Si- 'y e '!: p reserved edition- of this Elizabethan work fetched £9OO reX° rk butthe Beckenham find is not nearly so valuable because the original bin ling has been repiacad.—London, August 28. Close to Disaster The driver and three passengers in 016 sh °re of Lake s ° u, h .Westland last evening to thsaster when their car to r~* down - 1 atee » bank “<J to rest against a tree 12ft from the Fears ago a truck that had fallen from the* road was recovered from 90ft of water The Waihn h occurred on the GreymotSWaiho highway about 7.15 njn.. when the car and a taxi collided Th. ™ Hari “ P ' U A ™“trong, of Haai