VIDKUN Quisling, Norway's arch traitor, was shot in Oslo at 2-40 this morning. The King, sitting in Cabinet yesterday, refused an appeal for a reprieve made by Mrs Quisling, and ordered that the sentence of death should be carried out. Quisling was leader of Norway's Fascist party, and was condemned on charges ranging from high treason to the theft of silver from the royal palace. One of the main points for the prosecution was that Quisling had subscribed to a plan to incorporate Norway in a "Germanic Federation" with Hitler as president.

NUISANCE AT SCHOOL HILL

Mr Editor - Will you allow me space wherein a state a few facts to the public concerning the failings of the Corporation, or rather the Sanitary Committee. We hear much about the closing of cellar dwellings - a thing very desirable in some cases; but the greater part of them are palaces compared to some cottages belonging to the Corporation, and others at the above-named place.

Though not cellars, they are single houses, with no ventilation, and some of them are so filthy and dirty that it is the greatest wonder how anyone can exist in them at all; and there are four privies in Back Rudge-street belonging to the said property, three of which are minus slates and doors, so that there is only one to 19 houses, some of which houses, though single as aforesaid, contain two or three families.

I ask, in the name of humanity, is such a state of things to be allowed to exist side by side with our boasted sanitary reformation?

Yours etc., A RATEPAYER.

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