A bakelite screw-top off a jar, burled in the ground on the Grampions Station in the Mackenzie Country certainly baffled Nature. When it was dug up recently it was found to contain the.root of a grass which apparently got into the jar-top and could not find its way out. When examined, it was found that the grass root had wound itself around the threads with a mechanical precision. It must have been persistent, too. because the root, when unravelled, proved to be five feet long. It’s penny Wise and pounds foolish to use inferior coal—insist on Kaitangata.— Advt.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25384, 16 November 1943, Page 6
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