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POLITER POLICE SPEAKING CLOCK
RENOUNOTNI
SUCCESSFUL MOVE
KEPT BUSY
Talks 220,000 Times A Week
The
Within a month of its inception the new Metropolitan Police thod of dealing with motoring of
the exact time to telepho fences has already had a striking subscribers dialling TIM, answ effect on the number of cases 220,000 cals a beard in the courts, reports: the "Morning Post"
This fact is revested in the an- nual report of the Post Office on A noticeable fall in the number progress in the London Telecom- of cases involving minor offences mamications Region.
and an increase in prosecutions for Novelties developed last year in- more serious breaches of the law clude a new type of telephone for have been recorded by the various the deaf, and the "Key-caller. road organisations.
This instrument has been design-
* Under the system instituted by ed chiefly for the use of private Sir Philip Game, the Commission-branch exchange switchboards in er, the specially trained police pa-automatic exchange areas. trols may issue polite and friendly It resembles's small typewriter, warnings after minor breaches of with ten keys numbered and letter- the regulations, but must pursueled like the standard dial It en- the dangerous and careless driverables the user to call a required with greater vigour. In this way number by depressing the key in- it is hoped that a new spirit of co-stead of dialling. It is operated operation will be founded between more quickly and easily than the the responsible driver and the po-diala i mésou liceman.
There were 78,000,000 more tele While official statistics are not phone calls originated in London yet available, experience at ver-last year than in 1935, bringing- ious police courts has shown a de- the total number of calls in Lon- finite change.
don during the year to 1,007,000,- At Marlborough street and 000. The number of telephones in Marylebone Courts, for instance, use in London at the end of 1936 there has been a noticeable de was 1,022,000, an increase of nine [crease in the number of summonses per cent over 1935.
for motor-car offences.
Shilling Night Calls The report states that the in-
18 Per Cent. Decrease At the South-Western Court, troduction of 50 free calls to re- typical of the suburbs the present sidential subscribers for the last figures represent a decrease of quarter of 1936 reunited in the about ten per cent., compared with weekly traffe being frequently the corresponding period of last 3,000,000 calls in
year.
of the
Summonses for careless figures for 1935. driving and similar charves, how The popularity of shilling calls ever, have shown a distinct in-at might has been maintained. At crease`recently.
Bank Holiday time the number of
calis
The Automobile Association has these calls rises to more than 3,000 observed a decrease of about ten nightly. On the busiest evening be- per cent in cases of obstruction fore Christmas, nearly 11,000 calls which London members have ask were booked in London. ed the organisation to defend. Sum- The total number of trunk-c monses for breaches of the light-originated in London last year was ing and licence regulations have 6,955,000 compared with 5,751,000 fallen by about ten per cent. and in 1935, an increase of nea
21 About 2,138,000 were eight per cent respectively, while per cent. there have been smaller reduc- shilling calls. tions in other classes of compar-
The mileage of telephone lines, in atively trivial offences.
London's system rose by 140,000 to On the other hand a marked in-s mess necessitated staff incre
4154,000 miles. The growth crease in the numbers of prosecu- tions for speed limit, "half sign and careless driving offences has been observed.
At the
Fear
about 11,550 Operators and super- visors were employed in. ondon, compared with 10.900 at the of 1935.
THEATRE IN HIS GARDEN
"Our experience also shows that summonses have fallen off,” an of- ficial of the Royal Automobile Club told a "Morning Post" representa- tive Members report that there has been a much improved under standing between police and driv- ers in the past few weeks. They have found that the police are clergyman with a love of the theatre more polite, especially in dealing built himself a playhouse in his with less serious cases.”
rectory garden,
Commercial Cases
Nottinghamshire country
He is the Rev. J. C. Walker, of
The change has not been so ap the little village of Averham, near parent in the case of commercial Newark, and every year he has drivers. "We are less concerned gathered together a company of vil- with parking and obstruction re-lagers, famous now throughout the gulations than the private motor- county as "The Country Bump- ist, representative of the Comkins:
Motor Users Associatio stated, "There have been fewer
ummonses Or
has been m
er strictness in applying the mile an hour limít, «More
onses have also been issued. breaches of the driver. gulations
At Scotland. Yard it
the tr
not be
the first place
introduced
produced a play or ban-
Andiences travel for miles around to the Robin Hood Opera House.
Mr. W. H Hannaford, the rec- tor's chauffeur, takes the leading m- roles.
to