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·ELECTROCUTED BY A VACUUM CLEANER.
INSULATED HANDLES
URGED BY JURY, Vacuum cleaners should not be supplied to the public unless the handles are properly insulated by non-conducting material.
This was the recommendation of the jury in returning a verdict of accidental death at the Cam- berwell inquest on Mra. Ennia Eugenio Williman, aged 61. who was aald to have been elec- trocuted while using a vacuum cleaner in her home at Hilldown- road, Streatham,
Mr. Charles Alfred Baker, sonlor electrical inspector of the L.C.C., anid that the top of the handle of the cleaner was metal covered, and contained the switch which started and stopped tho
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SIR ARTHUR EVANS' WORK IN CRETE.
RECONSTRUCTING THE
PALACE OF MINOS..
Athens, July 17. Sir Arthur Evans passed through this evening on his way from Crete to England, and he gave an account of his work at Knossos during the present sea- son, which began in March and has just ended,
His main object, this year was reconstruction rather than ex- cavation, and especially to recon- stitute parts of the upper storeys of the domestic quarters of the Palace of Minos, replacing the rotten wooden beams by reinforc- ed concrète.
Another object was to cover the gypsum slabs of the floor-spáco of the great hall, which had been
motor, after the flexible cord had change one word to another and spoiled by the moisture..
boen plugged in.
Sir Arthur has also been en-
do it in par a given number of gaged in roofing in the "hall of
"I do not think the handle of strokes. Thus to chango COW to the double-axes."
the cleaner should be in the electric circuit at all," he said.
"The handle should be entirely. insulated."
in three strokes, COW, Hen, HOW HEW HEN.
2You can change only one letter at time.
3-You must have
Traces of Frescoes.
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Mr. Baker said that the switch Jal. b EMPRESS OF ASIA
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In this particular machine was word, of common usage, for each that there is no doubt that, as in LIVERPOOL SERVICE EMPRESS OF FRANCE F. 6 Fat 0 Fob, 12 Feb, 14 Fab, 25
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not machine. In 10,000. He was
4The order of letters cannot in the hall, which is a very fine
structure. (E/Amin & Esanía call at Nagasaki the day after departure from Bhai)
condenning the design of this bo changed.
Ona solution is printed on another machine, as he had not studied it
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Mr. W. B. Beaton, solicitor for the County of London Electricity Supply Company, who supplied
He has also put up the replica of the "dolphin and fish" frosco In the "Queen's megaron," which opens out of the "hall of the
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New Handio Design. Coroner: If such machines were fitted with an ebonite handle, may we take it that such a shocking fatality could not take place? the apparatus on the hire pur-sical Studies, which wishes to erect Yes, if the ebonite was good.
Mr. Baker added that he had never before: heard of a person being killed in this way.
Anyone holding this cleaner in one hand and touching a gus stove with the other hand would receive the full pressure of the electric supply:
He did not think there was such potential danger in the use of domestic vacuum cleaners ns to make it necessary for purchasers
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Mr. F. M. Irednie, representing the makers of the vacuum cleaner, said that a new design of handle made of ebonite was now in use on their machines.
and on the other side of the Hodoa Spensippou, adjoining the Gennadius Library and opposite the residence of the director of the British School.
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