Two carpenters who left England and wont to Canada 12 years ago have "made good" in a marvellous way. Cue is now a barrister and the other a rector. They arc Alfred Leach and John Warren, and they made the money for their education by hard manual labor. The Metric Association is trying to get an alteration in the value of the pound, so that it shall correspond 1 better with the kilogramme, usually called n kilo. A kilo is equal to 1.000 grammes-, and the English pound is equal to -4-5-1 grammes. It is proposed that our pound should be made 000 grammes, or exactly half a. kilo, and that 2,000 of the new pounds should make a new ton. There would be very little difference in the weight of a ton! but the newfound would be about an ounce and a half heavier-than at present.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DUNST19221113.2.45.1
Bibliographic details
Dunstan Times, Issue 3143, 13 November 1922, Page 7
Word Count
147Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 Dunstan Times, Issue 3143, 13 November 1922, Page 7
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dunstan Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.