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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 243, 27 September 1922, Page 4

The well known Swiss pilot, Deinenjoz. will (says a report from Paris) shortly attempt to land “on his head” or upside down. Recently he flew’ upside down for 2 minutes 14 seconds, and for one minute 30 seconds with a woman passenger. He will place landing wheels on the top of his aeroplane to facilitate his attempt at landing upside down. At present it is hard to se e a cockie’s face for smiles (writes n correspondent to the Stratford “Post”). As one enthusiast was heard to say : “We have been waiting a long time, and now it has come we can almost see tne grass growing.” Then, flourishing the paper, he said: “Look! the price of butter is going up, so we are all right now.” An instance of the new tendency m a branch of work which a few years ngo would have !>een pronounced impossible to mechanicalise cropped up at the meeting ot the Auckland Harbour Board a few days ago when a vacancy among the ledger keepers coused by the resignation of a man drawing over £3OO a year was filled by buying a machipe for less than £4OO and appointing an operator at a weekly salary of 3Os. New laid eggs are now retailing in some city shops at Is Id per dozen, which is the cheapest price at which they have been sold for many years. The explanation is that the market >s practically over-supplied. In recent years the poultry industry has been greatly developed, with the result that the production of eggs is now larger than it has ever been before.