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Otago Witness, Issue 3961, 11 February 1930, Page 36

By means of an apparatus which photographs a clock on a telophon-e call being put through, the number of minutes occupied by each call is to be checked experimentally in certain of the telephone exchanges in Paris.

J. J. Niven’s have disposed of their property in Wakefield street, Wellington, almost an acre of land in the heart of the city. The sale means that within the next few months one of the oldest engineering firms in the Dominion will close down, but it is at the same time improving its organisation generally in Wellington and elsewhere. Immediately following the sale they purchased the. Dunlop Rubber Company's four-storey building in Taranaki street.

Mr Wyrley Birch, who addressed the Timaru Rotary Club the other day, said that the best speeches he had heard in Australia had been given in Newcastle. He had been in Australia for a long time, but had had to go from the cities, to the above-mentioned little town, before he had heard speeches with any vision in them. At Newcastle, subjects such as the coal strike had been delivered by real men, with real ideas.

Although Colonel T. A. Hunter has relinquished the appointment of director of dental services, it is to be noted (states our Wellington correspondent) that he held also the position of director of school dental services, but no intimation has yet been given of bis proposed retirement from that office.

Mr C. Stewart, of Singapore, a wellknown angler, who is visiting WhangaToa, reports that he witnessed an astonishing feat there recently, when Mr Stanley Ellis, of Hamilton, hooked two swordfish on two rods simultaneously, and by the use of a socket rest for one rod fought and landed both fish single-handed, though both fought well (says the Northern Advocate). They weighed 2041 b and 2061 b. He also landed a mako of 3401 b. His day’s catch of three fish makes a record for the season.