SIMPLE PROPORTION.
: : " j : . : ./■ ARITHMETIC ON THE WHAKF. Perhaps some smart little boy in tho Fifth Standard of one of the city schools will assisb tlie Union . Steam -Ship Company.Of New! Zealand to solve the follows ing problem. It may .be done by simple proportion, although the Union Company would very, much prefer that it Was.not, However, here is tHe problem-.— ' .. - "If it takes four days to discharge" ', 1G; tons of Newcastle coal from a steamer, how long will it take to discharge 1800 tons ? ?.' ' / , Of course, 450 days. Simple, is it not? But .from,: tlie iUnion Company's- point of '.view;it, is : not at..all 'simple.'. Their';char-. ' tered steamer: Wakefield was berthed:- at 'the/ EaiiVay--Wharf on Monday, for the purpose; of discharging' 1800 ; tons' of coal.. iJp. till-yesterday only some 1G tons had beendischarged into .truckai and the reason why the remainder - is • still in. tho : iiolds.of the. ship is the old, old reason— ''-No. truck3"—and, in/ the'.language of Ltfr;: 'Enery I'Awlcins, it would .appear, that •' 'There ain't goin' to be. no . trucks'." Meanwhile
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 935, 30 September 1910, Page 4
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172SIMPLE PROPORTION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 935, 30 September 1910, Page 4
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