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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1928, Page 4

Duriii" tlio war. aviators wore protected by goggles and wind shields made of Triplex glass, whilst the glass for submarines and safety screens for high speed submarine clmsers was also of this same material. Triplex, which we notice is standard on the new Ford ear windshields, is a non-shatterablc, clear vison glass with no wires in its structure, and consists briefly of two outside layers of glass with a middle binding layer ol plastic. Ihe three are welded together under heat and pressure, and the product passes through seventeen different operations before it is passed as Triplex.—Advt.

ADVENTURES OF A MAT. A workman, at Auckland, sat on the top of a telegraph polo, wielding a soldering iron with that two-handed dexterity that makes the layman wonder what is holding him on. A gnst of wind whipped off his hat, but. wishing to finish the job before the iron cooled, lie did not come down immediately. On descending. ho found that his hat had disappeared, nor did a search of the street reveal any trace of it, until, passing an adjacent se-cond-hand clothes shop, the owner saw the missing “tile" n; espying a central position in the window. It cost Idm Is Od to liny hack the errant head-

SJATDTH and 'l'llK sandwiches. Cur in? I'i' addre ,s at tlio Auckland University College Mr H. F.. Vatic said lie did net pretend to lie ail authority on India, hut lie claimed that lie was more observant than the American lady who, having returned from a tour of the world, and passed through Ttalv, was asked what she thought of Rome. “Rome?” she queried. and then turning to her daughter she asked: “Say, Saidie. do you know Rome? Did we stop over at Rome?” Saidie answered: “Well, say, mommer, you know Rome. That was the place where we got those awful sandwiches at the railway deepo.’ ”