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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 308, 3 October 1929, Page 5

Mr. E. H. Barrett, traffic inspector under the Main Highways Board, recently gave striking figures of the saving effected by a transport company operating between Hamilton and Auckland after he had induced the management to seat the speed governors down to 20 miles an hour. The benzine consumption was reduced by four gallons per trip, the repair bill was only a small fraction of what it had been, and the tyre cost was brought down from £7OOO to about £2OOO per year.

The following story comes to light probably for the first time (writes a correspondent of the Nelson Mail). During the war a Scottish farmer in a district not far from. Nelson, presented a lamb to a patriotic bazaar, to be disposed of as the prize in a weight-guessing competition. Not only did he give the lamb, but he actually bought one ticket for himself and put his guess on it, 1371 b. When the last ticket was sold the lamb was put on the scales and weighed 13711 b, and a man was found who had guessed the correct weight and so got the lamb. The Scottish donor was perplexed, and later confided in a bosom friend the following : “ I have made a terrible mistake. I weighed that lamb before I left home and it was 1371 b; it rained heavily when I was bringing it here, and I clean forgot to consider the extra weight of the water in its fleece.”