“BIT TOO FAR”

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1933, Page 8

“BIT TOO FAR”

RAPID ADVANCE OF SCIENCE.

A NEW TERROR FOR HUSBANDS.

LONDON, November 9.

Science in its overmastering passion for'improving and inventing tilings lias gone “a bit too far,” says the Sunday Chronicle. In cold blood it has invented a new terror for husbands —-a gadget which ruthlessly records for all time tiie exact hour and minute at which the householder inserts his latch-key in the lock. .

Worse than that. The device records in unchallengeable print the fact that it was the husband and no one else who opened the front dopr. Argument is useless, for the lock, with inhuman accuracy, makes an exact note of every one who opens it. His wile can at will reel off to him the time of night he has rolled home for the past five years, and there is no excuse left for him, L a man attempts to slip out during the evening “to see a man on important business” the' incorruptible lock will record what time be went out, what key was used, and what time lit came back. Any attempt to trick the mechanism by leaving the door ajar is> doomed to failure, because the lock will make a note of that, too. The new lock was on show at the recent Business Efficiency Exhibition in London. It has mere useful and humane properties, however, by way of saving grace.

• Fitted to shops or business premises the device prevents the locking of the main door until every other door and window is shut, ensures that the shop was open to time and not closed before time, and permits a watchman to make a record of his rounds without having to unlock the door.