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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 73, 14 March 1918, Page 1

A rate notice which had been sent out by the Mataniata County clerk was returned to the council last week, and the following footnote, added by tho pei’sou who received the notice (the wrong one) was read:—-“I don’t know where this dam’ man is; I don’t care a dam’ ; don’t send the dam’ notice to me again.” “ I’ve been to Rotorua,” said Cr Rollett at the last meeting of the Matamata County council, “ and I don’t know now many peoplo have got on to me like bulldogs, over the Rotorua road. I don’t know how many actions for damages are going to he taken against the county for accidents ” he concluded. A simple little contrivance, which Private Phillip Henry (formerly of tho Government Printing office staff, and a son of Captain Henry, Inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) secured from a dead German, is an electric Morse lamp for infantry, says tho Dominion. There is a tiny electric bulb enclosed in a metal caso, which can be placed on the end of a rifle or periscope, and so wink back messages from tho front lines, without tho ouomy being an}' tho wiser, ns tho light only shows on one side. Tho lamp is fed by a small battery, which is hitched to tho tunic belt on the left side, whilst the switch block hangs from tho belt on the right side. The contrivance is very cheap, and must bo a very effective night-signal-ling apparatus, and of value for use befoie tho tolephono wires aro working.