Miscellaneous Announcements

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIII, Issue 779, 9 February 1905, Page 14

Miscellaneous Announcements

Under this heading we are prepared to insert advertisements of motor cars and other goods for sale, and other miscellaneous announcements of a like character. The charge for each insertion is 2s 6d for thirty words or less, and 6d for every six words or less in addition, and a discount is offered of one free advertisement in a series of thirteen, i.e , a 2s 6d advertisement will be inserted thirteen times for £1 10s, etc. Deposit Department. — Persons who hesitate to, send money to unknown persons may deal in perfect safety by availing themselves of our Deposit System. If the money is deposited with The Sporting Review, both parties are advised of this receipt, and upon intimation of arrival and acceptance of the goods, the money is forwarded less a charge of Is for registration. For all transactions exceeding £25 in value a deposit fee of 10b 6d is charged. Cheques and money orders should be made payable to Arthur Cleave and Co., Auckland.

motor-omnibus of approved make have been now proved beyond question, but their convenience, adaptability and economy have not yet received the consideration their importance deserves at the hands of the tax-payers. Compared with tramways, with a fixed- line of .route and outlay of thousands of pounds per mile, with expensive upkeep, a motor-’bus service can vary its route to suit public convenience, and does not block traffic in the streets, while it can be installed for about one-third of the •capital outlay necessary to establish an electric tramway. Many a venture has been rendered unprofitable through having to pav interest on too large a capital. Taxpayers should treat the question on the hard facts of pounds, shillings and pence, guarding against any sentiment or faddism. Investigation will elicit the fullest information that can be desired, and will support English experience that motor-omnibuses offer a more economical means of handling passenger traffic in suburban districts than any other known at present time. * * » * For those motorists who desire to ride free of dust under ordinary road -conditions, the discovery of Sir Horace Plunkett is available. The dust-preven-ter invented by this gentleman is simplicity itself, and is so effective that passengers riding in the tonneau remain quite clean, when those riding in othercars not fitted with the preventer are covered with dust. It consists of an ordinary framed glass screen of a certain height above the dashboard. The height is important, on account of the effect on the air current vhen travelling. The screen should be Join above dashboard, 4lin from footboard *o top of screen, and 39in wide. A canopy top, with glass screen in front, has not the same effect, and back screens are necessary to protect the occupants of the tonneau dust. It is supposed that the passage of the car makes an overhead level current of air, and that another current of air is displaced by the screen and forced above it in a slanting direction. This meets the overhead current, and is deflected downwards to the rear of the car, striking the cloud of dust rising up behind, and blowing it off the tonneau. Whatever the correct solution of the phenomenon may be, the result is perfectly satisfactory in practice.