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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 883, 8 December 1916, Page 8

Iu The course of liis addre.-> at ih<» quarterly meeting of the Chamber of ; Commerce yesterday afternoon Mr 11. S. Bourn ma<le reference to the pilfering lof cargo between Lyttelton an.l Christ- : church. This nuisance, lie said, was growing to such dimensions that it was j imperative that something should bo ; done in the direction of die.-king it. tso ! pronounced had the evil become that 1 1lie receipt of an unbroken case was I something unusual. The General Manj nger of Railways had been approached i on the subject, and had promised to reiceive a deputation earlv in the \eir Year. i That snails can pass over such sharp I instruments as a razor's edge without the | slightest harm has been demonstrated iby a French scientist. The snail walks | with the whole under surface of his body, and it is provided with means to lubril 1 cate the road on which it travels.