HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18208, 15 July 1927, Page 8

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. The ‘ Summer-Time Pioneer.” j Petts Wood, Chislehurst, was opened ! and dedicated a few weeks ago by the | Marquis Camden in memory cf the late 'Mr William Willett, the originator of j Summer Time. Mr Willett, who died in j 1915, was deprived of seeing the ful- | filment of the most cherished wish I of the latter days of his life—the passj ing of the Summer Time Act. He lived j in a beautiful house, which, curiously ; enough, was on a site known at one | time as “Hangman’s Corner," because the Chislehurst gibbet stood there. After the opening ceremony, the Marquis Camden, the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, unveiled a sundial as a second memorial to Mr Willett, whose widow was present. Six-wheel Omnibuses. Six-wheeled omnibuses to seat 60 passengers, on pneumatic tyres with fourwheel brakes, were to have commenced running on the London streets last month by the Admiral Omnibus Company, for whom six of the new vehicles were built in England. Scotland Yard has given permission for six such vehicles to run experimentally in London for three months. Similar omnibuses have been in use in various provincial towns and in Paris for some time. The omnibuses being built wi'll have 6cylinder engines and Sin. pneumatic tyres. An experimental vehicle is also being built for the London General Omnibus Company. K ::

Sorrows of Mr Chaplin. Pity the sorrows of the world’s greatest film star. He gets no salary--ha works only when he is inclined. Ilis name is Charles Chaplin, and his income from “The Gold Rush" alone was more than £300.000. Evidence given by Mr Joseph M. Schenck, who distributes Mr Chaplin’s pictures, was to this effect in the alimony suit brought by Miss Lita Grey, Mr Chaplin’s film-actress wife. Mr Schenck said that Mr Chaplin gets 75 per cent of the receipts. “We should lose our bankroll if we had to pay him a salary,” he said. “He works only when he is inclined. Charlie works by inspiration; other stars by perspiration." Whereupon the court awarded the wife £3OO a month, retrospective to January.

!■: g :: The Little Game. One of Australia’s richest men, Jamei Tyson, said, a little while before he ; died, that it wasn’t his money that made his life worth while. It was “the | little game." He had enjoyed the work by which he made his fortune more than he had enjoyed the fortune itself. He looked back with delight upon the adventures, the hardships, the triumphs he had kown. He could pride himself upon good work done. For the material result of success he cared far less. So it is with all true men. They spend themselves for what is in their toil, not for what can be got out of it. They need not despise the ease, the freedom from anxiety which they have won. They can enjoy such pleasures as wealth enables them to purchase, though they know these are far from being the finest pleasures of life. But what they value most of all is the recollections of their struggles, their failures, their victories. They have enjoyed their little game. A Coroner at Ninety-Three. Mr John Graham, coroner for the Chester Ward of Durham County, who is in his ninety-fourth year, recently returned to his duties after a few months’ holiday. Mr Graham was appointed a coroner fifty-five years ago, and has carried out his duties ever since, almost without a break. Mr Graham frequently conducts three inquests a day.

Terror that Flyeth by Night. Intensive night flying manoeuvres are being carried out by air squadrons, comprising the new home defence force which operate from the double ring of aerodromes surrounding London (says the “Daily Chronicle"). Squadrons of huge Vickers Napier and Handley Pago Napier night bombing ’planes from the outer ring of aerodromes—each machine painted a greenish brown, which makes it almost invisible in the night sky—are practising long-distance night flights. These big night bombers arc intended to fly long distances to attack enemy aerodromes and prevent the launching of air raids. From the inner ring the aerodromes fast singleseater night fighters are practising manoeuvres, which include the attack, on enemy bombers which have been signalled as passing in over the coast and approaching London. Each nightflying machine carries red, green and white navigation lights when flying at low altitudes, but, above 3000 ft the lights arc extinguished and the manoeuvres carried out in complete darkned