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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 308, 3 October 1929, Page 3

It’s a small place, but it seems to u- ln a nice nei ghtmurhood, so they think they’ll tax it,” was the naive objection of a woman to the valuation of her property at the Christchurch Assessment Court the other day. Later she said that she had been told that the Court would not give her much satisfaction, but she should come along “ just in case.” However, she secured a reduction of £175, so it was evidently worth while.

A Leamington resident had a narrow escape from being electrocuted last week. _ The lady of the hodse was busy in the kitchen ironing clothes, and was us'ng an electric iron for the purpose. A short disV tance away from the table at which 5 she was engaged the range stood, / upon which were various cooking utensils used in preparing the evening dinner. The fire was burning a little too briskly, and without releasing her hold on the electric iron she turned round to push in the damper of the range. One hand being on the range and the other on the iron created the circuit, and the shock the busy housewife received was so severe that she was almost thrown to the floor, and unable to continue with her work for an hour or more. Had the shock occurred to a young person the consequences would more | than likely have been very serious. An act like the above, done unthink- [ ingly on the spur of the moment, might easily happen in any household, and shows that one cannot be too careful when engaged with electrical appliances. Waikato Independent.