Mathematical calculations show that an iron ship weighs 27 per cent, lees than a wooden one. and will carry 115 tons of cargo for every 100 tons carried by a wooden ship of the stimo dimensions, and both loaded to tho same draught of water. Knives and spoons are of very great antiquity, but the use of forks is really, comparatively speaking, modern; and indispensable as these adjuncts of the talblo may now appear, they had not become at all general at the beginning of tho eighteenth century.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16542, 16 November 1915, Page 6
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