"You seem to consider this a pleasant sort of entertainment; you are smiling all the' time?" asked counsel of a petitioner for divorce who was giving evidence this morning at. the Supreme Court. 1 "I cannot seethe smile, and I cannot take it down," said Mr.. Justice Chapman. "Perhaps-hot," said counsel, "but I am entitled to comment on this gentleman's demeanour."
A very peculiar, means of propelling a small rowing boat was seen at the Boat Harbour ylesterday afternoon. Clamped to the. stem of the boat, and about, two feet above, the. water, was asmall two-cylinder, horizontally-opposed petrol motor, to the shaft of which was attached a 'small, aeroplane propelller about three feet.in, diameter. A twist of the wrist, and the boat was speeding merrily over the harbour at about fiv|3 knots an hour, the aerial propeller making a peculiar hum. The advantage of this type of motor.is.that, there is.no danger of,; tho ; ;propeller;, fouling in shallow wader, as in the case of the usual marine and outboard motors.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 47, 23 February 1917, Page 8
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