THE COUNTRY STOREKEEPER NEEDS THE MOTOR-CARRIER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1536, 4 September 1912, Page 6

THE COUNTRY STOREKEEPER NEEDS THE MOTOR-CARRIER.

Tn most retail businesses the cost of delivering parcels is one of the important items ot expense, and especially ft this the case in regard to tho country store, vhcro deliveries' have to bo made over a very large area of country. Even with Hio beet of horses and the lightest of vehicles the delivery rounds take a lonj? time, and tho distance covered is limited bv the capacity of the horse. The big , delivery firms in London found out long neo that horse-van delivery was too costly They ascertained that the cost wns Cd.. per mile. The motor-carrier took tin.place of the horses, gave twice as fast n service and covered twice as much ground, at a cost of only Id. per mile. \\<s have just received delivery of a light, but very strong, motor-carrier, which carries eoods up to half » (on, under cover. The engine is of G-8 h.p,, of simple strong design, and anyone could learn io drive tho carrier in half an horn , . His very economical on petrol, running about GO miles to the gallon, ami (lie tyres only cost J:2 ss. per cover. There arc two gears, and the carrier will climb any lull. Tho Melbourne I'ost O'ffii'n is using ten of carriers nt. present. The price is low. .C 145, bill the carrier is guaranteed t» do its work much faster and much cheaper than any hor.-e-drivon vehicle. Write for particulars. We have in stock a good second-hand Huniuqr car, 10-12 h.p., at .£l.)0: a Itpo at .£75, nnd a Foiir-sentoil Oklsmobilp at .£SO. All in eood order. Adnmf. Limited, , Motor Af»nte, IM-15* HieK Street., ChrittchurcL—Adrti

The motor-car industry- in England is, according to Mr. W. Angus, a Sydney importer, who returned from tho Old Country Inst week, going ahead by lenps and bounds. The cars made iiu England were, ho said, now accented as the best in th* world. England had been slow to got going, TJut now that she had gone into the business in earnest sho was leading tho world. Motor buses had knocked tho horse buses right out in London. There were only about a dozen liorso buses loft, and they would toon vanish. Thevo were 8001 tnxi-cabs Housed in London bloiie. Motorcars were being moro and more used for traction, and tho day was not for distant when t'hc horse, would, for the transport of merchandise at all events, be a rarity in London. One result of tho gradual displacement of tho horse was that tho streets were kept much cleaner than, used to bo tho case.

How a doctor was tho means of getting into AVoolwieh Academy a hoy who had been too short was narrate! recently by Uγ. G. A. Gib.'ou, of Edinburgh, at a sectional meeting of tho British Medical Association at Liverpool. The oighteeiL-ycar-ohl sou of one of his medical friends was one inch below 5 feet in height, lie had sot his wholo mind on entering Woolwich, for which his only clrnnco was about six months ahead. The family, said Dr. Gibson, turned to him in deep distress , , and he resorted to thyroid extract, by Hie employment of which tho youth grew seven inches in six months. As ho obtained one of tho highest places in the entrance examination, it was obvious that the cerebral functions had been in no way cistiirbed by the treatmant. The thyroid gland, situated in tho neck, secretes a substance which is absorbed by the blood or lymph, and which exerts a profound influence on. the nutrition of the body. A preparation from tho thyroid gland of a sheep is used, among other directions, in cases of stunted growth.

The general scheme for the plans of the buildings for the approaching Auckland exhibition and the decoration of the grounds has been prepared by the archi-" tects, Messrs. Bamford and Pierce.