LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 81, 26 May 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“Hats! a moving mass—millions of them, exist at the old sanitary depot at Potono,” remarked Councilior List at the local Borough Council meeting the other night, during the consideration of a circular letter from the Health Department in regard to the destruction of the rodents and the necessity of a house-to-house inspection in connection with the removal of any collection of garbage that might encourage tho pest. The Post Office clock iast night lost ii'-' balance again, and indulged in some eccentric; striking (says the Christchurch “Press” of Saturday). Most of us line! that time passes cnicHy enough, hut as recorded •by the Post Office clock time does not merely pass—it Hashes by on oiled wheels. It struck eleven o'clock twenty minutes too soon, it anticipated the witching hour of midnight-by fully half an hour, at twelve minutes i: isc twelve it struck one o'clock, and some straying revellers in tho Square were apparently silenced by astonishment at hearing two o'clock struck about two minnles later. At that rate men would sleep the clock icnr. 1 while having; “forty winks.” It is extremely f-’d that a time-honoured institution like the Post Office clock should, alter a more or less iirenroachahl • omh. u.»w take t o evil courses and irregular living, and proL "nt th‘> n i infill sped vie of a ■hornlogical helot, an ‘hnvful example’’ to’ all town clocks.