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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 22 November 1924, Page 10

There was a time (says the Auckland “Star”) when no Auckland trader in Queen Street would have di earned of leaving his shop windows unprotected; each shop was as carefully shuttered as an invalid is wrapped up before going out ito the night. To-day you won’t find a shop shutter within how many miles of Auckland? At any rate there must be thousands of Auckland children, and older than that who have never seen a shop window otherwise than naked and' tin ashamed F AVh at is the reason for the change of fashion? The;old style of shutters to every win-' dow must Fare been - a, great waste of tints’;.' it made Queen ..Street a risky promenade between' eight and half-past and was the cause of much incipient bad language- in diminutive office boys; but there must have been some good sufficient reason for it. ■ .Probably the modern plate glass was not so common in by-gone Auckland, or, probably the ■present system of insuring windows had not been introduced.'' One of two Aucklanders who were recalling this forgotten precaution of- the by-gone shopkeepers remarked, “you forget they had' 11 o’clock licenses in these days.” Has Auckland got more • sober, or has the plate-glass got thicker.

The current was switched on to the Southland Power Board’s 66,000 volt main transmission line last week for the-purpose of testing the line and the transformers,, at Monowai. The power was , transferred' over the 11,000 volt line from Invercargill through- the AVinton sub-station, and everything worked satisfactorily.