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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4649, 16 January 1924, Page 3

When the weather is really hot in New York the municipal authorities adopt various devices for giving relief to the poorer people who live in tenement houses and cannot hel.o themselves. The children, especially, are well looked after. There is sometimes a free distribution of ice, and the fire brigade turns out with a special kind of hose to give a showerbath to the small folk. Anybody who likes may sleep in the parks, and there is not too strict a rule about the amount of clothes proper to the occasion.

Two murders and 40 motor-ear thefts occur every day in San Francisco, according to a member of the police force of that, city who is in Sydney on holiday. Prisoners, he says, are sleeping in the corridors of ,the big Quentin gaol because it is hopelessly overcrowded. Chinese, the visiting policeman states, are the worst offenders in murders. Feuds among the different societies neve.end, and with such great secrecy - are crimes committed that the police are absolutely baffled.