GATE RECEIPTS.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 6

GATE RECEIPTS.

to l^™ gh thls F Db'eni has no'reference tariff fft^i" 1- ig<!a6sion concerning th« or (1 admi«'on to the various ipdrti \y MM L;?i PolVi* ea> for Parity. fciS i} 4iop people attended, and i n the niim more Vhl Pai([/° r admission were 4& class paid for admission, arid what' wai the charge respectively?- . ,

_ FASSENGEfK BY TBAIN. Chatting to a railway official-the other day, he that -there were, mdl cations.that the rail ways. were coming intS me number of motor-car accidents of lafJ. IVnS^ 5 F e? p]e to«^ adopt tht trains Ho , 'ransl(^ horded by the trains. He quoted some recent fieures in m.pport which, however, willnot bTused n the following problem. Supposing a % £ ar] S /* A ' destination C, with three hundred passengers, not necessarily tor-L, as one stop is made at B: The faii from A W Bis six shilling; B to c seven .dulling, and A to C twelve "hit hng..- Assuming the train to b^ v one, what would'be the greatest number runTTr 8"^ r'?> carried in:-«S. Ed £190 It ■ *e f bookln« re*ipts show--11 r "is, of course, assumed that all fares were prepaid. . . '

THE AGE OF A COB. It is : generally agreed that a horse'i age.cannot be determined with any degree yof accuracy after he • has turned seven, except, of course, by.documentary evidence. Two men, were rdiscussing IS age of a cob. m a sale-ring recently* and both agreed that it was aged, but beyond that neither could express an opinion. A farmer hearing the conversation, said tfia't he knew the cob well, as.it was foaled on an adjoining farm m the Janaary of tha year that he* returned from the war Ha also said that, a year- ago it was threa times as old as the horse he was riding just, then, and m a couple of-years' time Ins own horse would be' exactly half tha nlb S WVv S thi? ■ c°nversatio n ;took place at the last Easter sales, can the lei- l r etermine the. calendar year io which the: cob was'foaleS? - *

MARK^fikd. , Some of the regular fruit and vegetable dealers plying their trade in the city, though not, of. the educated class, arS particularly ttukk in calculating possible) pofits in relation to the fluctuating mar. tetprjcts. A sale of cucumbers was iuet concluding as the writer dropped iii at the markets the other morning, the last lot being_ knocked down to a dealer, who, judgwg by his speech, had graduated i£ the .East End of London "I Beat 'im foe tenpence a hundred," he said-to his part, ncr, who immediately replied: "That'll give us twenty more, in every-five bob'« worth than we'd a.got if yer 'adh't beat «?'■■ J^, the deal forked. out at'lev than 9%d per dozen, how" much did th« dealer pay per hundred for the cucum. bers? .....>.' .; • ■ .... CANADIAN FOOTBALLERS. '■-Twtf ofs'the Can'aa&nVfctftballei-r'diS very little training on-foot, igetting" into tornrdiiefly'bjr cycKhgi Most of the others do taeir work 'oh the roads' walking long distances, and though they start oil together, there are generally long gats between them at the finish, especially when the route covers a long distance. If 52% miles,-.and rf the cyclist B, riding at exactly.double F's.rate of .walMng/covers 52% miles in four hours less than G, how far would-sF. be behind Gat the end of two hours', walking,, assuming that the? started toftctherj and=maintained their mi lorm'paee-ias "indicated? • PacKing.Lead.P6ricils.-if.is pencas ba tfll ced c ,V l\ th6 Wttom-row they will -'-«* actly £11 the width of the box as stated S? .n<pt. T»w should be-2i only, each fitting into the groove formed by two. con. tiguous pencils. The other'rows should be packed 25 and 24 alternately, and'ia i ■%i vrfi y „6le.Ye n, rows.-n-ili occupy leg* depth by decimal 6§ of the diameter of ft ' pencil; than ten rows packed in 25's Thl gain therefore would be 20 pencils. Answers to Correspondents. G-B.—The idea is as you state,' and thert are .many, examples. , >. : . . ' .■ - • W.C.S.G.-T^See to-day»'s wsiie. .- " L.S.K.—I6 years. . I-J-S.-Publislaed 11/6/^7.^ ' ■■". P.W.A.^-Y6iir cominunicatiQiis welcom* Miss D.C.—Acknowledsjea-wifh thahks7 Last Week's Soiyttons. Towards the Cardinal[;; P»|irtfc-Th4 cyclist riding west must have travelled 8 miles from the cross-roads' to' the ch> cumference of the circle, the walker 4 -miles, and the two hotseirienejch 4 miles north and south, respectively. Their rate* of travel were therefore:^ 4, and 8 miles an: hour respectively. ■ : ' — ' Gathering Coconuts.—There were 3i2J coconuts in the original h&p, (his being the greatest number iess than 5000 possible tinder- the • conditions. • : • ■

x A Map WJthont a.Sotte^-The wale of the map was 1-5 of sii men per mile, the travellers assuming it to-be Hof an inch: • ■ .••-..■ .■'■■ :.-.■■■