REVELLING HUSBANDS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 717, 18 December 1933, Page 7

REVELLING HUSBANDS

A DEVICE THAT "CANNOT LIE." (Science in its overmastering passion for improving and inventing things has gone "a bit too far," says the 'Sunday Chronicle. In cold blood it has invented a new terror for husIbands — a gadget which ruthlessly records for all time the exact hour and minute at which the householdtr insects his latchkey in the lock. Worse than that. The device records in unchallengable print th'e fact that it was the hus.bia.nd and no one else who opened the front door. Argument is useless, for the lock, with inhuman aeeuracy, makes an exact note of every one who opens it. His wife can at will reel oif to him the time of night he has rolled home for the last five years, and there is no excuse for him. If a man aftempts to slip out during the evening "to see a man on important business," the incorruptible lock will record what time he went out, what key was used, and what time he came back. Any attempt to trick the niechanism by leaving th'e 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 more ' 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 noit closed before time, iand permits ^ watchman to make a record of his rounds without having to unlock the door.