LINER WITH, BASIC SLAG
The liner Euahirie left London on Thursday for Bluff," where she will discharge her cargo •of basic slag, arriving oh". April.7. 'On this trip the Buahine is not bringing" passengers, but she will load on the New Zealand coast for United Kingdom ports, taking Her usual complement of travellers on the Homeward voyage. The Ramsey and the Westmoor have..already brought, slag to these shores this season, and the Bosworth,'.Fernmoor, Ridley, and Brandon are "all en route with cargoes of 'the same substance.. '..■.... ■ ■-.- • - ;. .• ' • .-.•••-,>f
. Sound travels faster through the air when the temperature is high. For instance, at zero, sound travels . 1088 ft per second, while at 100 degrees it moves at the rate of 1266 ft per second.
...Only' twenty' years ago the. only mechanical transport of the ' British post office consisted of four motor-cars and one steam tractor.., . .'..;
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 15
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143LINER WITH, BASIC SLAG Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 15
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