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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6494, 14 April 1908, Page 7

MOTOR RELIABILITY TRIAL. Result: —2O h.p. Rover, privately owned and driven—3B.B4 ton miles to the gallon. Only ono Rover car waa competing. The nearest competitor was a M-13 h.p. car—34.42 ton milea to the gallon. The consistency of the Eover is proved conclusively by being the winner of the great International Tourist Trophy Race. N.Z. Hill-Climbing Championship Petrol Consumption Trials If you study economy in upkeep and reliability, the above will nppen' to you. Price of the 20 h.p. Sorer, complete with wind screen, Cnpo ®hood, head and side lights. .6600. Special terms can ho arranged for anyone who wishes to indent these oars. Prompt deliveries. Si* h.p. and 8 h.p. alee supplied. Inquiries W.J.H.S., Boi 41S, Wellington.—Advt

A caterpillar devours GOOO times Its own weight in food during a single month. It is calculated that two dnys’ fog puts £5,000 people on the sick list in London. Horses nro so plentiful in Buenos Ayres that oven the beggars beg on horseback. Heventy-five per cent, of the meat eaten in England comes from foreign countries. Krupn's groat gun works at Essen consume 2000 tons of coal nnd coke every lay.