Calcutta stared recently when a man drove through the streets in a remarkable motor-car which it took one man three years to build. He made every nut and bolt, himself. Three years ago, purely as a political move, the Calcutta Corporation, the- majority of whose members are Swarajists (home-rulers), in face of strong opposition and ridicule, commissioned an Indian workman to construct a 16-h.p. motor-car for municipal purposes at a cost of £250. In a tumbledown hut open to the sky, which did duty as a. workshop, the makers mechanical equipment would have delighted and inspired a humorous cartoonist. The most elaborate machinery was an ancient hand lathe operated by a rope band running to a. cartwheel turned by a small urchin. With Tobacco, as with motor-cars, the. most, up-to-date machinery and processes arc necessary t.o produce the perfect article. Red Shield Dark and Blue Shield Medium come from New Zealand’s largest and best equipped factory. They are well described as New Zealand Tobacco at its best and are toasted to a. tur’y In handy two-ounce tins at 1/7, and one-pound canisters. — 21.
Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds, never fails.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 June 1934, Page 8
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