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Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 9

The wine glasses which graced the table of the White House in the good old days have now been packed away out of sight —by order of President Hoover. These glasses, some of them 50 years old. have not been used since the introduction of prohibition 10 years ago, and, when the usual summer inventory of White House equipment was taken recently, it was decided that they should be sent to a Government storehouse. There they can no longer recall happy memories of now illegal joys to the chief executive and his staff in thirsty weather. The question of a really serious earthquake occurring in Wellington and the location of water maiiis wa? raised at a meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society (states the Post). It was suggested that in the consideration of future water schemes it should be borne in mind that to have all one’s eggs in the same basket is to look for trouble. At present the city’s water mains come along the edge of the harbour, along the known earthquake fault. A big shake might destroy them all, hence new mains should be brought into the city by some other route.

In the wheatgrowing areas of Canada the protein content of each truck of wheat is taken at the place of loadingand sent on in advance of the grain to Winnipeg, the headquarters (says the Christchurch Press). This involves much organisation. A map of the area marked with all the hundreds of stations at which this is done was presented to a reeent meeting of the committee of the Wheat Research Institute. It looked like the intricate network of a big railway system. The price of the grain depends largely on its protein content.