THE END OF THE CAR

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 10

THE END OF THE CAR

FURNACE SUPERSEDES DUMP ‘Your old second-hand car may one

day be an important unit in a great bridge, a towering building or a mammoth dam. Think twice before you harm a single rust spot. There is a future existence for motor-cars. Even the most forsaken of jalopies may in its reincarnation occupy an exalted place in the scheme of things.” Such is the pronouncement of an American prominent on the Pacific Coast: To those not familiar with the nomenclature of Automobile Row, . a jalopi is a vehicle which is held together by benign providence and a piece of string. In many a steel-rolling mill up and down the Coast these decrepit cars, dismantled and more disreputable than ever, enter the maw of electric furnaces to be transferred into a molten, white hot mass and poured into forms, the billets later being rolled into structural steel. Thousands of others are shipped for conversion in foreign countries, Japan being the largest customer at present.

The shortage of raw materials, insible for experiments which are be- ! eluding petrol, in Germany, is responing carried out there in the utilisation of household and private motor vehicles. Headlight dazzle can be reduced by keeping the windscreen clean and polished. Fine dust particles pick up i

the lamp beams and reflect the light. A dirty windscreen also accentuates the difficulty of driving into the sun, and smudges when the wiper is used.

Twice-baked bread, one to two fingers. Milk drink, 4oz to soz. Piece of raw apple. Or, 3. Mutton broth, made with vegetables, 3oz to 4oz. Twice-baked bread, two to three fingers. Baked apple, semolina or brown rice pudding, two or three tablespoonfuls. Top milk, 2oz. Milk drink, 3oz to 4oz. Piece of raw apple. 4. Poached egg with spinach. Baked apple and twice-baked bread. Milk drink, 3oz to 4oz. Piece of raw apple. Note.—lf the child has a good appetite and takes all mixed foods well, it is not necessary to give milk to drink at dinner. Tea 1. Wholemeal bread and butter, with tomato or lettuce as sandwiches. Milk drink, 5 to 6oz. Raw apple. Or, 2. Oatcake and butter. Bread and butter with a little marmite or honey. Milk drink, soz to 6oz. Raw apple. Or, 3. Coddled egg (when not meat, | fish, or egg has been given for dirtier), j Brown bread and butter or toast and j butter. Milk drink, soz to 6oz. Raw | apple. 1