Untitled

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 286, 30 August 1935, Page 17

The notice.“ Found, ai pair of gloves, also a baby,” appeared on the door of the competitions secretary’s office at the Town Hall yesterday. The unusual addition to the small collection- of lost objects that is generally in the office awaiting owners had been found in a pram in the corridor by one of the society’s staff after it had been in that rather cold and draughty position for two hours. Compassion was taken on the infant at the end of that time and it was put inside, to be claimed after the lapse of further time by an unconcerned mother. Searchlights, telephones, loudspeakers, and a patent sling, worked by one man. ' which can lower anything -to groundlevel, are fitted to a new fire engine supplied to Hornsey. London.

British school teachers are living, on they average, five years longer than they did twenty years ago; more than 1000 reach the pensionable age every year.