PETROL TINS.
USEFUL IN THE EAST. ‘ I have just returned from, a tour of. the Near and Middle East, and have oeen amazed and amused at the prevalence of the familiar two-gallon tin and its extraordinary adaptability to all sorts of services—some of them laudable enough, but some, it must perforce be said, regrettable. In Palestine, while seeking in the Valley of Jehoshaphat for the ancient pool of Siloam, my attention was drawn to its whereabouts' by a procession of handsome married women coming up the steps leading from the pool, carrying petrol tins on their heads which they had just filled at the pool itself. One woman in fact was performing the extraordinary feat of carrying two tins, one on top of the other. The poise of the carriers was still a thing of beauty, but by no conceivable means could the poetry of the ancient pitcher be associated with a petrol can.”—Vernon Gibberd in the Daily News.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4768, 24 October 1924, Page 3
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159PETROL TINS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4768, 24 October 1924, Page 3
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