ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23014, 17 October 1936, Page 12

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

■ Wager. Woodhaugh.—A medical man la not compelled by law to obey any or every call Nosey, Kurow.—Tbe distinction ot " Count held by John M'Cormack is a Papal title Parmer Cromwell.—Cora Nufflelds private address in England is Nuffield place, near Henley-on-Thames Frosted Glass, Dunedin.—Frosted glass is ground in the process of manufacture. but the ordinary frosting is merely a coating of paint stipled after wards by using a dry brush. Inquiry, Dunedin.—The origin of tne phrase To do it on one’s head ” and Its variations, is not known. In "A Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ’’ the Rev E. Cobham Brewer delines it thus:—“To do it on one’s head Said of doing something with consummate * ease; a rather scornful expression. I bet you couldn't walk a mile in seven minutes Pooh! T could do if on my head! ’ "S. 8.. Dunedin.—The pioneei airmen In New Zealand were Messrs J J Hammond and J VV. H. Scotland, Mr Hammond was engaged for some time at the Eastbourne school of (tying, while Mr Scotland learned to fly at Hall's school at Hendon in the summer of 1913 On returning to then native land Doth brought machines Mr Hammond having charge of the Bleriot monoplane on which Mr Gustav Hamel had flown to Cologne and which had been presented to thr New Zealand Government by the Irr perial Air Fleet Committee Mr Scot land brought with him a Caudron biplane (45 h.p. Auzani). and founded the New Zealand Aviation Company Ltd., its chief purpose being exhibi tion flights in the Dominion He flew his plane in several centres, his flights in Dunedin being on April 30 and May I Shortly after this he crashed when taking ofl from Newtown Park Wellington. Mr Hammond gave some exhibitions in the north about the same time, while Mr A. W Schaef was experimenting with a home-made monoplane