WEIGHING AND MEASURING.
Tho following item contains some useful hints about weighing and measuring:— We often want to find the weight of some small object, like a letter or something, when wo have no scales with us. a little knowledge of tho weight of coins will help us out. Here are a few hints. Three pennies are equal to 102, and five halfpennies weigh the same. Two halfpennies and a farthing weigh and so on. Ono halfpenny and one farthing together weigh a trifle over but if wo use worn coins we would get a iairly accurate result. For scales we only need a stiff card and ruler, or piece of board. Nowadays since few peoplo possess farthings, tho weight of an object can be ascertained by adding coins to the object's side of tho scales and subtracting. It is also handy to know that 10 pennies in a row are equal to lft. in length, and that a halfpenny measures lin. across. For Jin., sixpenny-bit may be used.
—From Hugh Fleming, Grande Vue Kd., Manurewa. (Ago 15.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20792, 7 February 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)
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178WEIGHING AND MEASURING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20792, 7 February 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)
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