"READY FOR TRANSPLANTING."

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12001, 19 October 1906, Page 7

"READY FOR TRANSPLANTING."

Healthy tomato plants, Benefield's have for sale, are just ready for transplanting. These plants are grown from speciallynested seeds and are recommended as •plendid croppers.

How far the master builders of the present day excel their fellows of the age in vhich the nvramids were built was the subject of special reference at the annual ricriic of the Master Builders' Association •f Sydney recently. The president (Mr E. I. Buchanan) assured his hearers that in >oint of expedition the builders of to-day vould run away from those who raised the listoric piles of stone in Egypt. How the mcient builders lifted the great blocks to normous heights was a question Mr l.uchanan said he did not propose to enighten his audience upon, but historians •ad told them that 100,000 workers were 'mployed for 20 years. As an indication of •'^c improvements in the calling of presentlay master builders, he might say that the Sydney builders would undertake to do the ob in 18 days, and they would only want 36,000 to do the work. These figures, he iolemnly added, were accurate; they had been based upon very reliable estimates, md if submitted to the most expert engineer would be found correct. (Laughter.)