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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1057, 21 February 1911, Page 8

, A Brixton (England) resident- was. riding in a tram-car, and. wishing to alight tie pulled tlie bell, but the driver refused to stop. Exclaiming,' "I .will see. whether it won't stop," he knocked a > switch' out, stopping the current, and bringing the car to. a, standstill. . For doing this he was ordered by a. magistrate to par a penalty of 40s. and costs.-. Mr. Robert' Ralph Williams,'headmaster of Clydach Vale .Schools,., near. Tonypandy, has been awarded an Albert' Medal of the Second Class by the King for'gallantry- in saving life. , Qn March 11 of last-year water in a disused level burst a dam and swept down in tremendous vol-ume-towards his school. He. noticed the danger, and ran from department to department giving instructions that the children should be. dismissed, finally wading through a current up to his armpits in order to get the girls from an adjacent school removed from danger. • A process has-been discovered of manufacturing from vegetable products a substance resembling leather which can be used for making boots and. the ornamental articles' in which leather is employed. , r