. "You say the meters.never go fast," complained a consumer at the changeover meeting at -Hataitai last night, "but before the war I burnt 2b units, now I burn 98 units.' 1' "It's quite easy," replied Mr,.Lauchlan, "to esti-. mate what you owe us." (Laughter.) The ordinary bluebottle fly moves its wings about 330 times a second. This great speed is exceeded by the bee, which vibrates its wings at ."nearly twice this rate. The wings of the average butterfly move nine times a second. The London Underground has just beaten all its own records by carrying seven million passengers in a week.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 145, 23 June 1927, Page 6
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