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Otago Witness, Issue 3804, 8 February 1927, Page 38

Those who are in the habit of playing with matches would do well, to take warning from an acident which befel a young man in an Auckland city office the other day. He was opening and shutting a box of “safeties,” when the action caused the matches to ignite, and he was badly burned on the palm of his left hand. In future he will keep his lighters in his pocket (says the Star), excepting when he wants to put them to a real use, and will find some other and safer recreation then playing “shut and open” with a matchbox. Usually it is r.ot .till the snows lie thick upon the foothills that keas are driven to the lower levels, in search of food, but an ■ Ashburton motorist a few days ago saw two in the Arundel districts (reports the Guardian). One was squatting serenely on a cairn of stones, and the other, some distance away, was complacently preening itself on a fence.