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Experts are experimenting Avith cork as a new material for road surfaces. It should 1)0 the very thing for ‘bottle-necks ” * * * * Motorist (after collision) : “Here’s mv card. I haven’t time to stop.” ‘Pedestrian (cheerfully) ; “O.K. I’ll be suin’ vou !” * Germanv claims to have perfected synthetic petrol. We understand that the stern, final test was completely successful, the liquid almost immediately igniting an automatic cigarette-lighter. A music-hall comedian plays "hat is claimed to be the largest concertina in the world. It is said that he got the idea immediately after driving his car into a brick wall. * The identity of the young lady is withheld, but the memory of her answer lingers on with the instructoi conducting a science course at a local high school. One of the requirements in the written examination was : “Define a bolt and nut and explain the difference, if any. - The girl wrote : - “A bolt is a thing like a stick of hard metal, such as iron, with a square bunch on one end and a lot of scratching wound around the other end. A nut is similar to the bolt, only just the opposite, being a hole in a little chunk of iron sawed off short, Avith wrinkles around the inside of the hole,” * * * * Last week a hundred bottles of wines and spirits belonging to a golf club were stolen. The other eighteen holes were left untouched. V- .. M,.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1936, Page 3
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235FREE AIR. Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1936, Page 3
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