NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2860, 19 March 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A forty-four word letter resting in the eye of a needle has been sent to the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, by Mr. Alfred MeEwan, who calls it “;i crude, hurriedly prepared large sample of micro-engraving.” It can be read when magnified 88 times. The tender for the art gallery of Iho Dunedin Exhibition, which is In be a permanent structure, has been let to George Lawrence and Sons (Dunedin) the juice being f 11,923. The successful tenderer was formerly Mayor of Hie city.

New Zealand’s export of Kauri gum ((he fossil resin obtained from (he sites of kauri forests, submerged, long ages ago) has brought £20,000,000 (00,000,000 dollars) to the country. Even if the estimate of another £20,000,000 worth, or more, of kauri gum is won from the swamps and other areas oi the north, it is stated that the land will yield far greater wealth from pastures, crops, orchards, and vineyards.

Rut for the fact that he was of hefty build and no light-weight it is quite probable that much more severe injuries would have oourred to an employee at the Napier railway workshops whose clothing was caught in a whirling lathe recently. He was passing the lathe, when bis clothing' fouled the machinery, but his weight prevented him from being drawn into the moving wheels and cogs. The man’s clothing carried away under the strain, and he was thus saved from what would undoubtedly have been a serious mishap. He was severely shaken, and badly bruised round the should -