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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18238, 24 November 1924, Page 11

The nerilouL positions of window cleaners are sometimes such as to caua© ualoitation of the heart —to the onlooker The cleaner does not seem to mind much, but it is certain the tors of insurance companies would be attacked with syncope if they were to witness some of the feats Permed by him. Thirty feet or more above, trie street the other dav a cleaner was observed wandering' along window ledges, clambering every now. and then around a pillar, with only an inch or so of foothold, and nothing between him and the ground but atmosphere The other morning an Auckland Star representative watched in trepidation tAe acrobatic feats in mid-air-of a cleaner in the Strand Arcade. This young man was perched on one toe on the ledge outside the railing of the third floor, reaching head downwards with a dry mop to = dust a window several, feet below, having only a precarious bold of tho'railing" with one hand. It . would not have taken , more than a tremor to have dislodged him and sent him to certain death on the pavement fax below. A' monkey should not.be ask§d to perform such, evolutions." It would seem an easy thing for a'man with any regard to his life to have secured himself to the railing with a strap passed round his body. But perhaps'window cleaners baven : t any regard for their lives.