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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 79, 28 December 1925, Page 7

A large motor-bus narrowly escaped a serious accident in Auckland on a recent evening (states, the Auckland “Herald”). It was being driven up Cook Street toward the city, and while the driver was attempting to change gear it commenced to tun backward down the hill. Before it had gone far the back wheels went over a bank, but the chassis became caught, bringing the vehicle to a standstill. Had it gone a little further it would have fallen on to a house below. With the assistance of a lorrv and about 50 bystanders the bus was got back to the road two hours later, aud was found to be little damaged. “Control or no control, said an Oamaru farmer to a “North Otago Times” representative, I intend putting down a larger area in wheat next V ear The bottom seems to have fallen out of the lamb market and I see no better prospects than in wheat-growing.” . The most popular feature in the Wellington court at, the Dunedin Exhibition at present is the illuminated map of New Zealand, showing in relief the main railways and high roads leading to the capital city. Each route ‘is traced by a moving line of electric light, and provincial statistics for the districts represented by the court are flashed at intervals, on sunken screen. —"Otago Daily limes.” Out of the 1920 local sanitary authorities in England and Wai 3, only 350 have medical officers of health employe! full time. Hearing is so bad in the House of Lords that it has been suggested tbit microphones and hcud-phones should be installed.