NEWS AND NOTES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 26 May 1928, Page 14

NEWS AND NOTES.

Major Segrave will next attempt to set up a new world record in an effort to wrest from America the blue riband for the highest speed attained by a motor boat. Already the engine chosen for the task has been tested, and the results have been mast, satisfoctory. “Miss America 11“ at present holds the record with a speed of 80.5 b m.p.m. With the new British boat it is hoped to exceed 100 m.p.m. * * * * * While there is no legal speed limit for automobiles in Paris, Prance, 25 miles an hour is fixed as a sort of arbitrary “dangerous” speed in downtown districts. The driver of a car is responsible for his acts at all speeds, but the police have decided that a standard must be used so traffic officers can exercise control. * * * *

The world’s first automobile with a tiger body, made in Germany, has been shipped to its owner in India. It is claimed that when the car is in motion it looks as if a Bengal tiger were leaping through space. * * tt * * .

Parisian traffic has brought about a big increase in certain maladies, says a French physician who has just set up shop as a specialist in “automobile diseases.” Women, especially, hare been affected, he declares. Strabismus, caused by constant strain upon aucl shifting of the eyes, and nervous trouble due to fear are particularly prevalent among them. Hard-working clutches and brakes have caused many cases of varicose veins, he asserts.

One of the most luxurious automobiles ever seen in Paris is decorated with 8000 lizard skins of Java. Other reptiles used as trimming for the interior include Calcutta, lizards and leaning skins. ■** * * *

A total of 682 persons in the United States died from carbon monoxide poisoning, the gas in the exhaust of motor vehicles, during the year ending July Ist, 1927. While the general health of the country appears to be improving, the mimber of deaths by accident, particularly from poisonous gases, is increasing. * * * * #

Automobile drivers found guilty of reckless speeding in Kansas City, Missouri, are sentenced to 30 days’ pushing a wheelbarrow over a mile and a half stretch that leads from the municipal coal pile to the city’s workhouse. *****

A wooden model of a policeman is fixed to the top of new signposts for motorists which are being erected in Germanv.