MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] WOMEN’S CLOTHES. LONDON, Jan. 12. A speaker at a meeting at Bradford Textile Society complaining of the industry being heavily hit by women’s skimpy clothing, pointed out that it used to take two sheep to clothe a woman. Now a silk worm could do it. Another coriositv of spring fashion was the vogue of calf skin coats and sports suifs. They were usually the natural colour, so it was pardonable if short sighted people mistook women golfers in bovine garments for Jersey cows straying on the links. AIR REGULATIONS. LONDON. Jan. 12. The international commission of aerial navigation regulations introduced in 1927 provide that owing to the increase in volume of air traffic, pilots of large passenger planes should fie relieved of the duty of communicating telephonicallv with aerodromes. They] also order that planes carrying ten or more passengers must carry an operator. Imperial airways is consequently training their air mechanics as wireless operators.

DROPPED DEAD. LONDON. Jan. 12. David Hunter, the ex-Yorkshire wicket keener dropped dead at Scarborough. NON-INFLAMMABLE FILMS. LONDON. Jan. 12. Blair, chairman of a new company has erected a factory at Beckmahworth. for the production of a film eliminating entirely the danger of cinematograph film fires. It may be used in any room. Half successful tests have been made. The production is entirely British.