READERS’ QUERIES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21200, 24 August 1940, Page 9

READERS’ QUERIES

"Argument.I’—The 1 ’ —The South Island or New Zealand, with an area or 5».09? square miles. Is larger than the North island < 44,291 square nrrtles). • Finance.” —In November last year European nations owed America 1 1,497,1 61 .- 340 dollars 22 cent’, a* a result or World War No. 1. With both principal and interest Great Britain owed 5.497.•'.**9.37 9 and France owed 4,180,028,813 dollars. •Nawy.'*—rite mweadam system or road making was invented bv John Macadam tn 1819. The road-bed is laid with broken stones or a nearly uniform size which by the weight «>r traffic alone soon assume firmness. Nearly all the Mia':; country roads In England are maradasriised. • Interested."—The phrase ‘-winging the l»ai” to indicate a malingerer i ; supposed to have been originally based on an Armv expression. "Swinging the leg.'’ de-ped from the habit or a dog to continue to swing Its leg arter the injured limt> was well Landlubbers later confuted if with the na’-a; custom or swingm* the lead, which to tb»m appeared an easy job. "Cockney.**—The Tower or London was built bv Ouridulphns. Bishop of Rochester. In the reign or William I. Tradition, however, a’cribes it to Julius Caesar. ••F.l.T.’* —Achilles tendon is the large ligament or tendon or the cair muscle inserted Into the heel bone. It was here that, according to the classics, Achilles was wounded by the arrow or Paxu. the injury resulting In his death.