£300 SPENT EVERY DAY IN TESTING MILLER TYRES

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 4 August 1922, Page 4

£3OO SPENT EVERY DAY IN TESTING MILLER TYRES

Everv. dv-y the nwufacuit tr- of Miller Tyres sjx-nd £3OO in w;itching and tesontr tvr<s an»l materistii nr* e.i'eav.-ui "ne '< i-"tpro\e n ih •. Tl "y p 250 tyre - mth Mini, under < bs'-i van- n and t py --'it: iv ry tyr? *hat esc's. Tnis striving f'~r imprn -mo--t is the ss-rcar of the super".'rity-of M Her 1 vre-- and 'j lib?-; _ii-c! the re->- i t.> ■ "M'.l'ef" Vri('u r ?« t\re f osts to rult. V\ iti' for pn'?.- :.ad is.l p-iri : .c«ißr-. 80-*g, Son .nd Simm, Agents, Ai sac Square, Dunedio*

The American Republicans and Democrats worship at the shrine of a lord, and have lately paid the penalty, Oxford laughing to " almost- hysterical heights about the way in which Wansborottgh, an undergraduate member of St. John's College and of the University la crosse team, fooled American reporters into believing that he was "Lord Wansbbrough.' 1 ''At Montreal the Lord Mayor, who welcomed the team, also said he should like to meet Lord Wansborough,'' said Hopkins who captained the team. "There was nothing to be done, but that 'Wanee' should come forward. The Lord Mayor shook hands warmly, and remarked, 'I have shaken hands with Lord Roberts, I have shaken hands with Lord Deshr rough, and now I have much pleasure in shaking hands with Lord Wansborough.' " This, however, was beaten by the man who boarded the train, and, unable to see Wansborough—now bi-t-oming tired of his notoriety:—claimed to he an Oxford man, who knew "old Lord Wansborough very well." ''When wa reached New York reporters besieged us to find out our nicknames, and were particularly delighted with Lord 'Wanee.' Next day full-sized portraits'of 'England's Titled Lacrosse Player—The Youngest Member of the House of Lords' appeared in the papers. The thing went well. By the fine we reached .Baltimore Wansbbrough had been made a duke." The tarring of roads with the object of making them watertight and dustless, and therefore- better suited for motor traffic, has become common in many countries. One of the drawbacks of tarred roads is that tho washings' which drain off have a deleterious effect on fish and also on certain vegetable crops. In Great Britain the trouble was so. serious that the Ministry of Transport formed a special committee to look into the matter, and, if possible, -advise some remedy. Careful, experiments were carried out, and they proved that the washings from a freshly tarred road were injurious unless they were diluted with about ten times their volume of water. Subsequent washings'were much less injurious, but when the road begins to disintegrate the washings are apt to become again poisonous." The main recommendation ■of the committee is that roads which drain directly into fish waters should lie treated with bitumen free from tar products, as the washings from such -bitumen did not appear to have deleterious effects upon fish or other stream life.

France is going: in for retrenchment on a big scale "by a gradual process. Close upon 52.000 Government officials are to be discharged before December 31. The French Official Journal, in notifying this decision, stated that 10.538 officials belonged to the War Department, 9483 to the Ministry of Libcrated Regions. 7477 to the State Railway's, 5753 to the Postal Department, and 4917 to the Navy.

In the King of Siam, who is now known as a translator or Shakespeare, \vs have one more added to tlie list of poets royal.' Tho dabblers in metrical exercises have been many: King Alfred. Henry Yl.y Henry-; VIJLT., Elizath. Charles 1., Mary Queen of Scots. / and-'twice as- many more. But the real --'-ts of kingly status 1 are by no means Sf-rce. The King of Sweden's father nrul an unmistakable -gift for verse, and - ''Carmen Svlva" was, during the same period, a writer of lyrics that' iind universal fame. Her niece-in-law. present Queen of Rumania, has p~oved a successor, though her •MifrstyV forte .lies in what is called prnso poetry. The late K : nrr of Monte-n-r'aro w~s the author -(awnng ' other things) of a pln-y ' translated into JSn<r--li?h in 1913 wi!h T)ivs9 of the Balkans," and- t-ba l"'---Grand BwVe thor of one caller!, in En*h* ! v " King of the Jews,:' about- tho same time, But perhnps greatpsl cf r'r'O were James 1,, of Sccte, author of

"The King's Quair," and: Charles Duke of Orleans, the poet-prince of Agincourt. .Liquor from paper pulp made by tho soda process yields alcohol, acetone and wood oil. the" last useful for separating minerals from the ore by the. oil-flota-tion process. Thus far the principal utilisation of soda-pulp liquor has been along the line of drying it to a powder and burning it under boilers. This leaves the soda as a residue to be used again for pulp-making, but all the woody matter, with its oil. alcohol and acetone, is burned and wasted. German manufacturers have been successful in utilising eueh wastes, because they 'have learned the necessity for organisation and team work. They get together and finauce the pioneering, and the results' of research are both respected and shared for the good of the •industry. In this country manufacturers still are too much inclined- to have the individualistic viewpoint, which lead* them to try to monopolise a process or an outlet for themselves, or take it from the other fellow.' Even among chemists working on -6ucb problenis~there is none too definite a standard protecting the other fellow's aims and results." Along the coast every year are caught millions of fish practically worthless for food. Taken to plants ashore, their oil is extracted and the residue dried for fertiliser. As "in the packing industry; the waste water from these plants Carrie? valuable material; by the chemist's a few large plants let run away in "the seasou 4000 to 5000 tons of fish solids, worth £lO to £ls a ton for fertiliser, poultry feed and other purposes. Then there is the waste of wool-scour-ing liquors. As it comes off the eheep, wool c-ontains anywhere from 7 to 40 per cent, of grease, with 1 to 7 per cent, of potash, and 3 to 1 per cent, of nitrogen. Some of the grease is recovered, but not all. and the chemicaf residues, together with the ingredients in the soap and chemicails used in woolscouring, run away into the sewers; perfectly good soap and fertiliser material.. ■ A chemist -took samples of cdnders from the locomotive dump of a railway: Laboratory tests showed not less than 40 per cent, of miburned carbon, and often more. That railwav burns nearly 2.000,000 tons of coal yearly, and.at least 500,000 tons ai - e wasted. To screen these cinders' and' get out the imluirued coa;l particles is quite feasible, ■and wheii .somebody undertakes the necessary pioneering the unburned coal can be crushed, briquetted with raw garbage, and coked for a. fine, clean domestic fuel: or it can be briquetted with sulphite molasses or other materials.

The attention of French military circles has been directed again to the condemnation of Captain Proust for having'sold important plans for the mobilisation of the French army in Switzerland just before the war. The fact that Proust served with distinction throughout the war convinced many of his friends that_ there was something mysterious behind the discovery of a notebook left in Belgiumby the retreating Germans and which formed the chief exhibit"in the recent court martial which found Proust, guilty. It now seems possible that the. arniy may be stirred by a controversy' almost as intense as the famous Dreyfus case. Proust's lawyer is insisting that he is ready to prove in n new court martial that the captain is-the victim of a revengeful German woman, who failed to induce him to become a German spy. The ruins of ancient Carthage are soon to be dug up by a Franco-Ameri-can archaeological expedition. The remains of the three earliest Christian churches, which lie beneath many feet r d-.ist and debris, will soon be unj K thieved, .•.-": b:i more important as far as the .history'of early Christianity is coh.„„..r„ri M,, n are those of Rome or Con■Lnntinoplt. » .'.„