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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 285, 28 August 1933, Page 5

A surprise awaited an Auckland resident who visited his seaside cottage at Murray’s Bay, On opening the front door, he was astonished to find a back window broken, articles of furniture overturned, and torn cushions strewn about the place. It appears that a Fox Terrier dog had unwittingly been locked In the cottage when the owner left for the city, the animal being imprisoned for eight days before it was released by a neighbour, who had to break a window. The dog had nothing to subsist on except water. Weather reports fcpm the Southern Lakes district state that exceptionally hard frosts have been experienced for this time of the year. As a result the work of cultivating the land for the summer crops has been to a certain extent held up, it being possible to bring the plough into action only in the afternoons,.

Electric hair-drying machines provided an innovation at the Auckland amateur boxing championships on Monday evening. The machines, lent by a friendly hairdresser, were used between rounds to play cold' air on to the resting contestants, and appeared to fill the 'bill splendidly. The introduction of the driers meant a comparatively easy evening for the seconds, who in past tourneys have been obliged to create a breeze by the vigorous flapping of towels. There was a laugh early in tho evening when a surprised boxer momentarily though that an oversize revolver was being levelled at him, and jerked his head out of the line of fire.