Experiments with a new road surfacing material are to be carried out by tho British Minister of Transport. Railway sleepers impregnated with creosote last for years, and it is believed that similarly impregnated sawdust mixed in with a tarmac bitumen or asphalt tap-dressing would provide a non-slipping and a wea-ther-proof road surface. ' A bow which had run amok: took a fl ving leap over a perambulator at teed on (Beds), the animal’s feet " clearing the child’s head'by inches. ’ ' A new type of cigar-shaped flying-bont: weighing .14,0001 b, reached a speed of 95 knots and attained a height of nearly 1400 ft at Lytham recently..
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12042, 21 January 1925, Page 12
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