Round the Studios

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 8 (Supplement)

Round the Studios

Cheap Camouflage Some practical person has pointed out that the simplest, cheapest, and most effective camouflage for a ear is just dirt. This suggestion conies (appropriately?) from a Scottish journal. Circus Turn A garage proprietor in California has trained an elephant to act as extra garage hand. It does odd jobs round the station, such as polishing earn with a duster held in its trunk, and pushing broken-down cars here and there. As a sideline it gives rides —free —to every customer buying ten gallons oJ petrol. Fuel Supplies Many motorists, when noting the huge volume of crude oil drawn each year from the bowels of the earth, the annual output being in the region of 272 million tons, have probably wondered what the ultimate effect of the withdrawal of such a huge bulk of liquid will have on the earth. The answer is that, since the foundation of the oil industry in 1859. the entire world's production of crude oil would not fill a hole a cubic mile in the earth.