I A pocket electrical device for measuring the dept.fi of water in wells . has been invented in Australia. The first exhibition of a practical i electric tramway was made in Berlin in 1879. • An amusing story of what can hap- j pen on the New Zealand railways is ; related in one of the daily newspapers j by Mr. Roy McDonald, a member of * the New South Wales Legislative j Council. “ Last year I was in New I Zealand,” Mr. McDonald says: “1 ' discovered when T got on the boat for j the return voyage that I had left my | M.L.O. return pass in Sydney. I had • travelled over the Dominion railway j system with a gilt pass on my watch [ chain. Tt was my Australian Jockey j Club membership token ! ”
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Putaruru Press, Volume II, Issue 17, 7 February 1924, Page 4
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