SELLING "HOT DOGS."
New Zealander Inventor Who Won a Fortune. POMEROY IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, May 19. Mr, John Pomeroy, the New Zealander who invented the explosive bullet with which Captain Robinson brought down the first German Zeppelin in the war, is selling "hot dogs" to home-going theatre folk outside St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. In an interview he furnished ample proof of his identity. He possesses a photograph of the Admiralty's cheque for £25,000 for his invention, and still treasures a War Office certificate of admittance to Industrial House, London. Mr. Pomeroy says £11,000 was spent in experiments and a further large sum in litigation in trying to secure the award of £25,000. He lost the balance in investments. Mr. Pomeroy is now perfecting a method of freezing citrus juice in such a manner as will retain the flavour. He is also experimenting in other directions, while at night he sells "hot dogs." He was formerly a fisherman at Invercargill-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 117, 20 May 1931, Page 7
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