NOTES AND QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 39

NOTES AND QUERIES.

Qacstioa* 4cr reply is ooraiag isaae ta ba reeeired not later than SATURDAY night. Questions will NOT t»e replied te through the poet. Engineer.—Wo have consulted Mr Joneo ,\lca s rs Turnbull and Jones), who suggests that von apply for a position as switch boaid with the Dunedin City Corporation, and that von communicate with the nun edin City Corporation's electrical engineer. EnQ DIRER. — Ra tana’s itinerary is not known. It was stated he would visit the South Island, presumably after completing his tour of the North. Anxious asks: (1) If a boy with a proficiency certificate may leave school when lie is 14? (2) At vch*t age do the Railway AVorkshop3 take boys on. (3) Avfaat wages do they receive. Answers.—(l) lea. (2; Apprentices must -*o 15 years, neither older nor-younger. (3) An apprentice starts at 10id an hour. Puzzled — lf you had sent on the whole sentence in which the two words appeared it might hare boon possible to find their meaning. It appears to be a proper name. Eager asks: (1) Gould you toll lire how to make naturally straight hair either curly or wavy by a simple home-made preparat on. (2) Is there any simple, easily understood, and not too dear book cn “Dancing" that would touch a person to dance properly if she knew nothing whatever about dancing? (1) Other than the uso of curlers we know of no preparation which would transform straight hair into curly. (2) Any bookseller could probably supply you with boe*ks on dancing, but you would find it advantageous to take a few lessons. Enquirer (Fairlie) asks: (1) What year free education came into force? (2) The year the train rail through from Invercargill to Kingston.——(l) Free secondary education came into force in 1904. (2; The line v.as opened for through traffic from Invercargill to Kingston, July 10, 1878. Constant Reader asks: (1) For a recipe for chocolate sponge roiia, and (2) a filling for tho same. (l> Take the weight of three eggs in sugar, and half their weight in flour. Beat the whites and yokes separately. Add to the beaten yolks and sugar two tablespoonfuis of grated Chocolate melted over hot water. Use half tea-spoonful of cream of tartar with tho whites of the eggs, and flavour with vanilla. Proceed as with ordinary sponge by adding the flour, little by little, and folding it under with perforated spoon. Do not beat after the flour is added. (2) A'anilla whipped cream filling. Put two gills of thick fresh cream in -a bafiin. Beat the cream with a wire whisk to a stiff froth, add ljoz of castor sugar, and one good teaspoonful of vanilla essence. Beat hard for two minutes, and befere using cream, p ur sway any milk khicli may reinaii in the bottom of the basin. T S. 51.—Mr If. 51. Davey, consulting engineer, 61 Frederick street, replies:—(I) Yen probably know that there is more than one make ~-f the class of engine you descriltc. Most will be sold complete and with full directions. J have no means of informing you exactly what you want, but you had better have plenty to be on the safe side. (2) The tables do not pro the height at 6ft, but you can easily find out nearly enough when tho height is sft then the horizon is 3.16 statute miltei distant, and if the eyo were 10ft then the distance is 4.48 or, say, 4Aft. The rule is— S distance of horizon in statute miles. H height of observer's eye in feet; then S equals 1.42 square root H.

Nelson.—lf- you forward the MS. we could have it translated for you if you aie prepared to pay the translator. Story.—There is no prohibition on anyone, but only those deemed suitable are accepted. Motor. —Messrs Gordon and Gotch advise us that all the English. motor magazines are published weekly. The following is a fairly complete list:—The Motor, Motor Cvcling, The Motor Cycle, The Cycle Car, The Commercial Motor. Gelatine asks for a recipe for a plain cako using gelatine instead of eggs?- -Unfortunately we have no recipe in which the place oi eggs is taken by gelatine.