NEWS CURIOSITIES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20541, 16 February 1935, Page 28 (Supplement)

NEWS CURIOSITIES.

JOTTINGS FROM WORLD’S PRESS. A clock, 75 feet in radius, or 150 feet across the dial, has been given for erection on the summit of San Cristobal Hill, which rears 1000 feet above the city. The clock is to be set in an abandoned quarry. Kite flying, for centuries a Chinese national pastime, has been banned by the Nationalist Government. The official decree from the Ministry of Communications explains that huge kites at high altitudes impair visibility for aviators and constitute a danger to aeroplanes. An invention which it is claimed removes all the bones from a fish is being shown in a Copenhagen shop. The instrument is in the form of a knife. It is introduced into the fish and moved up and down a little, after which it is withdrawn with all the bones sticking to it. The inventor considers his instrument puts the delights of herring eating before many people who hitherto have refrained from the delicacy because of their fear of the bones. It may take a couple of new decrees to untangle a situation which resulted in the naming of a street as municipal judge of the town of Banao, in Santa Clara province, Havana. Gabing Galvez, provincial governor, recommended the appointment of Rafael Suarez Prieto as municipal judge. His address was given as Joaquin Maceo Street. The official gazette published a degree naming Joaquin Maceo Street as a judge of the town.

Failure to deliver telegrams proved a serious offence for Anna Merkusheva, messenger at Khabarovsk for the Soviet Union Telegraph Service. She was sentenced to seven years in prison, the testimony showing that on July 18, after tearing up messages and forging receipts for 389 telegrams, she delivered only three. Inspectors and supervisors who failed to detect the girl’s fault were sent to prison for from one to three years each.