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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12621, 4 December 1926, Page 11

HOME FOR LOST PROPERTY A ne-.v lost property office has been built tor Scotland Yard in London, it is an immense red brick building with (i frontage of and n back width of L’OOh. The building is five stories high. The first floor consists of rt maze of corridors, flanked on each side with thousands of pic-on holes of varic:j' dimensions capable of holding article of almuvt aII v dze. £o luge au- Mjinc of the cabined 6p.ico> that u stufied linn could ho housed should one ever ho mislaid. Vnlikc the present office, which contains only three counters, dozens of counters have been erected in the new office for the display of lmfc property so that it t’k’v lo nnddv identified bv ih<- mv, rv i - The l;i• f, im'*nf is to be tu'd as a. y.MM-ioom for Helen motor-

[ AN ELECTRIC COW ] An electric cow that gives new milk. | skimmed milk, malted milk, cream, | fruit-flavoured milk and ice cream to I order is the remarkable animal for 1 which carpenters have been building I n .special shed on hoard the African ! steamer Nigerian in the Herculaneum i deck at Liverpool. | This cow never kicks or flicks its tail ; in the milker’s eye: never is seasick ' never dry, ami can be milked bv a ; marine engineer in mid-Atlantic n j well as by a milkmaid on a Cheshire ; farm. All that the Nigerian’s cow ; needs is a diet of milk powder, fresh : butter and a drink of water.

A ROMAN SAFETY PIN A silver brooch, a bronze bangle and a dress-fastener were found recently at Fort Condercum, Newcastle, England, where excavations for the season have been concluded. Of the “crosshow” type, the brooch is 3in long and is ornamented with small bosses. There is the same catch device ns in tho modern safety pin. A spring effect is made by coiling the pin-wire at tho fixed end. A rod of Oin, marked off in two scales with Roman numerals Jins been identified as a steelyard band-balance generally used in Roman times. It has three loops for holding or hanging.