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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11980, 31 January 1903, Page 4 (Supplement)

ifie daughter cf Mr H. Deckert. Lorquon. near Miill (Victorini, had an <-x----citing experience while or. lier way r<: school the other day. She was atf.icked by a large snake, 'which sprang at hrr" and curled itself around her leg. The girl str.od motionless for a while, and the reptile slowly unwound itself and made towards its young, which were close by. The child then made her escape, but she is still suffering from the shock. In a valuable report on the use of 0 P on roads, the Town Clerk of Sydney says :- ••\V : th reference to the comparative" cost betwten oil and water, in one district the average cost of treating 12* miles of road with oil for one season was £33 10s pei mile, including labour and incidental expenses. In another district, it is stated that the streets can be efficiently sprinkled with oil at a cost not to exceed £42 per mile, whereas watering in the same district costs about £llO per mile, and the opinion is freely expressed that, generally speaking, the watering of roads in America costs four times as much as the cost incurred in oiling/'