—Tn 1840 the record time for crossing the Atlantic, ivas 14 days eight hours. This yea"the Mauretania liolds the, record, her lime being four days eight hours. A monument to Don Quixote is to be erected at Ksquivras, in Spain. This and Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London, will ho 'ho two most famous statues of characters it. fiction to be seen in the world. a turnip seed will, under favourable conditions, increase its own weight 15 times in a minute. Turnips growing in peat ground’ have been found to increase more than 15,000 times the weight of their seeds m a day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18768, 23 January 1923, Page 2
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103Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Daily Times, Issue 18768, 23 January 1923, Page 2
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