NEWS OF THE DAY

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1938, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Boy's Leg Cut. Edward Stella, aged 11 years, received a cut above his left knee when he jumped over a wheelbarrow at the Brooklands dairy factory on Thursday. He was admitted to the New Plymouth hospital where his condition is reported to be not serious. Electricity in Hair. The fact that when he smoothed his hair back with his hand he caused a discharge of electricity was bome home to a Hawera motorist the other day. Travelling quietly along the highway with the car radio in operation he brushed his hair back from his forehead and simultaneously static interfered with the broadcast. His attention was attracted but he was still incredulous until he repeated the operation several times, the interference coinciding with his action so accurately that he decided he was himself the cause of the interruption. Patea Candidates' Debate. He had never had any money from a central fund himself, he knew nothing of the control of such a fund, he always paid his own expenses and he had not and would not take up a collection, said Mr. H. G. Diekie, M.P., National candidate for Patea, at Fraser Road on Wednesday night in reference to an inquiry by Mr. C. J. Duggan, Labour capdidate, for an audited account of the source of the funds of the National Party. Mr. Duggan could set his own accounts, said Mr. Dickie, and the central fund at Wellington was audited by a firm of chartered accountants. Street Lighting Anniversary. The 50th anniversary of the installation of electric street lighting at Wellington was refer^red to when conferences of electric-power board secretaries and engineers, held in Wellington last week, and attended by delegates from many parts of the Dominion, concluded with a social gathering. Mr. H. G. Kemp, immediate past president of the Electric Supply Authority Engineers' Association of New Zealand, said 50 years ago a private company started in Wellington with 500 20 candle-power lamps. The Hon. T. Hislop, father of the present Mayor, later purchased the company's assets on behalf of the municipality, and from this small beginning Wellington's huge electricity and tramways department had been developed.