SIGNALMAN HERO.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1912, Page 10

SIGNALMAN HERO.

While handing his staff to an enginedriver on the wngle line between, Ferndale and Mardy (Glamorgan), a signalman named Sidney Pike fell from tho etage of his box, 1 and wag dragged for 70 yards. Although his leg' was badly mutilated, he crawled back to his *post in time to announce the train, at the next signal box. ( Later he was conveyed to hospital, and it wae feared that an amputation would Ibe necessary.

Footscray, a Melbourne suburb, arranged about two and a half months ago to > buy electricity from the Melbourne City Council, and retail 16 out at 5d per un,it for light and 2d for. power. The illumination has boon selling 80 fast at those rates that more than doublo the maximum contracted for is wanted from the supplying council. Private consumers have begun to drop steam and ftas. and even the huge iron works of Mephan Ferguson want the new power, laid on. As for the Footscray Counoil's side of the question, it finds that whereas it formerly paid £100 per month for gas for the streets, it now has to find £28 and the cost of maintenance — estimated at £60— for two and a half months' lighting of nearly twice the number of lamps. The amazing thing (remarks tho Bulletin) is that every council ih tlie metropolis does not abandon the mercenary Gas Company and go and do likewise.