One Day’s Events

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29913, 29 August 1962, Page 19

One Day’s Events

(N Z.P.A. -Reuter— Copyright) LONDON, August 27. One hapless housewife, two humorous thieves, and a number of harassed herring fishermen provided today's odd spot in Britain. The housewife, Mrs Margaret Bunn, smelled gas in her pantry and lit a match to find the leak. Five fire engines rushed to her home in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, to put out the resulting blaze. Two thieves in workmen's dress joked with shoppers about the weight of a safe as they wheeled it away on a barrow at Newcastle, Northumberland The pair trundled the 2cwt safe through the busy market to their van. wisecracking to passers-by that it was “too heavy a job for a Monday morning.” Later, a shopkeeper notified police that his safe containing £2OO was missing. Herring fishermen in the north-east seaside town of Whitby. Yorkshire, are buying up local shopkeepers' stocks of carnival masks to wear for work. The masks give “perfect protection” against jellyfish, which splash in their faces and cause painful swellings one fisherman said.

Statham To Tour.—The Lancashire fast bowler. B Statham has accepted the invitation to tour Australia with the MCC ’his season. He could not give an answer earlier because his wife had to go into hospital for »n operation.—London. August 28.

Benefit Match.—The New Zea-land-born all round cricketer. R. Hitchcock, of Warwickshire has been granted a benefit next vear. He has chosen the War-wickshire-Worcestershire match at Edgbaston on July 20