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Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 5

•The use of horses was the somewhat novel if, perhaps, not the most efficient, method of cleaning a weed-choked lagoon, suggested by a member of the Otago Acclimatisation Society at the monthly meeting last week. The fact that the shores of the Tomahawk Lagoon were so thick with weed that fishing was impossible, was mentioned. One member said ho had seen two horses out in the lagoon eating tho weed, which gave rise to the suggestion referred to. “Could you not,” inquired a member drily, “put on more horses?” —-Eleven escalators will be provided at the new tube station being built at Piccadilly Circus, London.