“TALKIE” THIEF-CATCHER. A- robot policq alarm is the- latest of Plymouth’s criminal-catching arrangements. At various strategic points in the city sound-boxes have been installed, the first, of their kind in the country. To call a policeman, all a civilian. has to do is this: Open the door of a compartment which looks like a small wireless set, and listen. A voice says: “Police headquarters. What is the matter? Where are you speaking from? Tell the police headquarters just where the trouble is." This is only one end of the alarm. Headquarters may have information of raids or projected raids, in which case every sound-box can be illuminated and. policeman on their beats lie able at once to receive instructions.
Customer: 1 want a couple of pillow! cases. Salesman: What size? | Customer: I don’t know, but I wear a size seven hat. “You know before we got married that you were marrying a bank clerk, didn’t you?” “Of course I did. Why?" "Oh! nothin*'! onlv I thought perhaas you imagined you'd married a bank.’- •
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1935, Page 8
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173Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1935, Page 8
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