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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20379, 10 April 1928, Page 8

A Press Association telegram from Invercargill reports that Charles Newman, who escaped from the Borstal Institution on Thursday last, was recaptured at 7 o’clock last evening hiding under a haystack near Otautau. He was in an exhausted condition, and stated that he had had practically no food since Saturday night.

About 10.30 yesterday morning a motor accident, which, fortunately, was not attended by any serious results, occurred at Maori Hill. A Buick car, driven by Dr S, B. Strain, was travelling in a northerly direction along Highgate, when it collided with a" Ford car. which was driven by Mr Sneddon, at the intersection of Highgate and Balmacewan road. There were two lady passengers—Mrs Sneddon and Miss Drinkwater —in the Ford ear. The latter was thrown forward, bumping her nose, which bled profusely, and at (fie same timo she received a, small scalp wound. Dr Fulton conveyed her to the Hospital, where tho wound was attended to. Tho collision was quite accidental, there being no suggestion of speeding by either car, and the accident is attributed to the fact that there is a high hedge at tho corner, which rendered ‘it impossible for either driver to see the other in time to avoid a collision. Neither car was seriously damaged. That the advantages of summer time have been amply proved is tho opinion expressed in the annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. ‘‘ It was with gratification that chambers of commerce found this measure placed upon tho Statute Book, and the operation of daylight saving a a a trial this summer has proved its benefit to tho greater portions of the community,” states the report. “ The opponents of the measure prophesied loss of production, but instead there has been increased production during the time ‘ daylight saving ’ has boon in force, and export figures especially confirm this, while the medical profession endorse its benefit to tho general health of all classes of tho community. While some protests have been recorded, mostly from farming interests, the great bulk of the community have, from this trial experience, been fully converted to the advantages of the adoption of summer time, and hope that reenactment of tho measure permanently will eventuate next session.”

The following clause has been incorporated by the Arbitration Court in the Wellington electric workers award: “ Every employer desiring to employ an apprentice in any branch or branches of the trade shall, before engaging the proposed apprentice, make application in writing to the Apprenticeship Committee, and the committee shall either _ grant or refuse an apprentice after inquiring into the facilities within the scope of the proposed employer’s business for teaching the proposed apprentice the branch or branches of the trade.” The union requested tho clause with tho object of preventing ‘ * one-horso ” employers from taking boys on and discharging them after perhaps a few months’ work. It was stated that it was very difficult to keep track of these fly-by-night employers, and the union was desirous of seeing that apprentices who started upon the trade, had a chance of becoming efficient.

, Tho Grand Lodge Conference of the International Order of Good Templars is sitting in Wellington. Delegates are present from Christchurch, Dunedin, and Nelson.

Tho following is an extract from the annual report of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce;—“ The excursions of Government and local bodies into trading ventures still give great concern to private enterprise owing to the unequal nature of this competition and the relief that Government and local body trading enterprises enjoy from general taxation and local rating. Business people have expected (hat this problem would have received a larger share of -attention from a Government whose election was greatly influenced by the slogan ‘ lees Government in business and more business in Government.’ ”

Afternoon tea was a feature of one of the athletic sports meetings held in Auckland on Saturday (says an exchange). Everything went well for a time until the .discovery was made that the tea had a strangely pungent taste, but sheer politeness demanded that the conversotion of the pleasant type suitable to such an occasion should be continued. When a pause gave an opportunity for taking a sip or two, however, tho situation was made embarrassing and difficult. Some sought to remove the queer taste by adding an extra allowance of sugar, with disastrous results; others conquered an insatiable thirst, and a few waited surreptitiously for a chance of casting the contents out of the way. Gradually tea drinkers learned that they had all shared in a similar misfortune, the explanation being that a boyish conspiracy had resulted in salt and sugar being mixed together.

Tho necessity for extreme caution in the handling of benzine cannot be too strongly emphasised. Early last week (says the New Zealand Herald) a resident of Epsom suffered severe burns to arms and hands through tho handling of a dish of burning benzine. The benzine was being u«ed by a woman in what appeared to bo a safe position, but in the adjoining room, more than 10ft distant, an enclosed fire in a water-heating system was burning. Apparently the fumes were drawn toward the fire, as with startling suddenness the benzine burst into flames, singeing tho hair of the woman and threatening tho house. In coping with the situation the husband received burns to arms and hands.

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