In the Magistrate>s Court yesterday, before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., John Howard Tapp was fined 30s and costs for being in possession of an unlicensed wireless set. Similarly charged, Percy Jarden was convicted and ordered to pay costs. A very simple centenary celebration has recently passed, a sermon having been preached in the Church of Rothwell, Leeds, in memory of John Blenkinsop, buried there 100 years ago. John Blenkinsop invented the rack railway, the device by which an engine with a cog-wheel fitting into'a toothed rail can climb heights or pull weights which it could never manage with smpoth wheels on smooth rails.
DO YOD KNOW FISKE'S? If you own a car, you certainly should know "Fiske's" for no car, truck or traotor can give you its greatest power or longest service with out the finest motor oils and lubricants. and every user of Fiske's knows thej have been in the lead since 1870. Obtainable at all dealers. Sole Agents, Briscoe and Co., Ltd., Christchurch.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20224, 30 April 1931, Page 4
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