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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 20, 30 July 1920, Page 4

In London the number of street accidents in 1919 was 19,865, with 687 deaths, and 18,998 persons injured. Few persons realise what a modern convenience is the familiar door. No primitive peoples have, or ever did have, doors ; the great temples of Egypt and of Greece had doorways, of course, but no doors. Often there were silks or tapestries hung over the doorways or doors or gales; but the door proper is aosolntely an improvement, even a lur-ury, of modern civiiisaticia