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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18899, 27 June 1923, Page 8

A tamo fox escaped from his kennel at Llandrindod Wells in the night, and dulyvisited the local hen-roosts, feasting to his heart’s content. Apparently satisfied, ho strolled about the streets and backyards until breakfast time, when he had several snarling arguments with dogs. Eventually the fox went into an hotel kitchen, where lie was recaptured by the use of chloroform. Last year 70,197 street accidents occurred in Great Britain—an increase of 7576 over 1921. Of these 2763 were fatal. The City of London, despite its immense traffic, had only 784 accidents, the small number probably being due to the slowness with which tho traffic moves through the narrow streets. An entire village at Hertfordshire forgot to put on its clocks when the change from, winter to summer time was made in. England. The morning church service began when similar services in the rest of tho country were on the point of finishing. The mistake was not discovered until motorists and cyclists began to hammer at the door of the local hotel, seeking refreshment long before the landlord thought of opening.