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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10723, 22 October 1928, Page 5

The Liverpool (Efig.) city coroner, at an inquest recently oil the bodv of a five-year-old hoy who died from injuries received when run over hy a goods , train nt East Brunswick, Deck, said that there wfiro many, accidents due to the speeding up of traffic, but this seemed an instance where traffic was so . slow that children treated it with contempt. It was stated that railway employees frequently chased away children who tried to ride on the buffers or stand on the waggon brakes of do Ac trains on lines, alongside the public thoroughfare. In this case the train was stopping at a crossing for road traffic to ;pass and had restarted only a . few yards when the boy was found under the -wheels of a waggon.

"The public to-day are rich enough to pick vand, choose,” declared Mr. Kenneth Lee presiding at tho.annual meeting in Manchester of Tootal. Broadhurst, Lee. and Co. Ltd., cotton spinners and manufacturers. He emphasised thg ..great -risks;? that existed at present in the ' textile trade; "If a mistake is made in anticipating the demand,!’ he said,. ."considerable sacrifice is necessary to enable. goods to be’ sold. Whereas before the war vie could sell left-over fashion goods at the orid of the soason by making a small * reduction, in - price r*nqv'. stock of this kind is hard to sell except at a substantial loss.” •