LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1923, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

Alotor ear-: of all kind- have long been known to gal ii: r -p ' d when passing over smooth a-phali or hitiiinimiiis mat tiftm road-. It is hum held to be due to the nbnurnnil profusion m vegetation fminil along many of tlie-e mads. Trees and plant- exttd." oxygen. Alotornin snieothly when tliere i.-. plenty oi oxygen in the air. 'I he increased amount t-l ox'geii ("till used in the localities where vegetation is profit;-' makes the motor “pick-up." Scion! i-'ts have ivectitly londiiited experiment' in several localities, and along the roads hordt red hv heavy vegetation. At first thought it would seem that dynamite was a cargo to lie tar'fully avoided, hut from a sailor's point ol view flier.' ate far iltore dangerous targee-. He dread-, lor instance. :t cargo of sugar. I’llt hundreds of toils o! eai:.' sugar in tasks in the belli ol a '‘" l and let ‘the ship .-team through a s|u II „f hut tv: a titer. The odour is sickening 'ihe sailors cannot get th--' sweet ta-f' out ol tic. ir mouths ami crave 'im gar er lemon juice—-anything .-our. 1 ‘"'T 10-e their appetites and are always glad when a voyage on which the cm-go isugar is over. Coltve H. *«s disag.ve.,bln a- sugar, tin addition to wing dangerous. Cotton is a tvally dan,r,..ri)tis cargo. If a 1'“'" m htMipens to rout'll raw nil ion the result may -politancons eomhnstlon. A single i.ile „f , niton saint',.'d with sit. h an oil as 1., il,. 1 lie-eed and l\ mg nl the bottom the hold can be compared only to a. slow tnaleh attaebed to a ho.nh . eu s ..,,,1 Otk'r elision als lorm dang, ton j.'.,,., m. -. Carbide of ealeiuin lor e\is ...ore daiigemus than dyuainit ■ v.etvleiie gas is made troin thcehei.iital. and the gas is c..n>ia„tly given oil" T the product is exposed moi<t air.