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Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 17, 7 February 1924, Page 4

Tommy (saying his prayers sleepily): “Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep.” Mother (prompting): “ If—” Tommv (almost asleep): “If he hollers let him go, eeny, meenv, miny. mo ! ” Blowing red-hot rivets through a hose of, metal is replacing* the old rivet tosser and the boy with the catching can as a means of transportation. The new apparatus is known as the “ Penflex Rivet Gun ” and consists of a galvanised metal tank with a connection welded to the side for the air supply line. The discharge ■\alve is opened by a movement of a stecV iod attached to the treadle. A metat receiver with a buffer block is at the discharge end of:’ the conveyor tube. J ins prevents the plastic rivet from being deformed when suddenly arrested upon reaching the end of its run.

One u! the Morrinsville ccclosiasucs told a good story at a Sunday school picnic last week. He had ad<l rested at function a' ihe other end of the district where he was trying to impress upon the children the importance of the Sunday school in framing the characters of the children. “ And now what is our principal work,” he had said, In the anticipation of the answer, to make good boys and girls,” or sometning to that effect. The reply he did get, -nowever, was merely one word, Cowspanking.