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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 537, 4 June 1920, Page 2

Legions of inventions have been made to prevent the skidding of rubber tyres, but no one device can be said to be completely satisfactory, either in avoiding slide slip or in obviating the damage to the roadway and the tyre itself. Chains, studs, and all sorts of rubber protuberances have been tried without real success. A Biitish engineer, however, has been working along much simpler and more scientific lines, with most promising results. His notion is to shape the tyre so that when it is in contact with the road it lies flat with a definite edge on each side. \ny tendency to skid is resisted by the "squeegee" action of the tyre in this position. Trails have shown that incipient side-slips are quickly check-

Ed and that the tyre wea.s well and has no bad effeot on road surfaces. Under 1 a regulation recently gazetted (t is rot lawful for any person to leave the Dominion with gold or silver in his or her possession without the permission of the Minister for Finance. The only people exempt from this embargo are Chinese, who are allowed to take more than £5 with tthem in gold. Previous to the departure of the Moasaki from Wellington for Sydney recently, the police and Customs officials took steps to ascertain whether the regulation was being complied with, and

as a result they succeeded in obtaining a haul of over £IOO from a Chinaman and a Greek. The money was all in gold, the greater con-

sisting of sovereigns. The Greek was the heavier loser of the two, far he forfeited a sum of about £9O. By the provisions of the regulation money so seized is liable to confiscation. The money discovered on ,the Moeraki is at present being held by the police. k