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Shannon News, 21 January 1929, Page 3

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During the first, eight months of this year 1,993,657 gallons of mineral lubricating oil was imported into New Zealand.

At the beginning of September there were 178,422 motor vehicles registered in New Zealand. Of these 22,188 were out of service, with no current number plates. There are over 22,000 cars in the South Auckland highway district, and if motor vehicles of all clashes arc included the total exceeds 33,600. In the North Auckland district there arc 5000 cars.

Describing push-cyclists as “heroes of the highway,” a writer says, “.the push-cyclist should get the V.C. ” And very appropriate it would be for some of them if it stoocf foi‘ Very Careless.

According to the American Bureau of Mines, the oil. production of the United States .nr 1927, totalling 961,.129,000 barrels, was by far the largest ever recorded and showed a gain of per cent, on the figure for 192tf. Motor spirit imports into New Zealand during the first eight months of 1028 amounted to 36,773.580 gallons, as compared with 29,493,938 gallons in the same period of 1927. This huge increase gives some idea of the substantial annual increases to do expected in petrol tax revenue'.' After each ocean “hop’-’ the lubricant was drained from the engines of the Southern Cross. This routine wa3 followed irrespective of the condition of the oil. On the flight from Blenheim to Sydney there was a loss of only eight per cent, in texture and weight. A British car manufacturer is offering non-splintering glass for windshields at an extra charge of only £2. The charge for screen and windows on a light saloon is £7 10s., while a roomy six-cylinder saloon produced by this fiim can be supplied with the patent glass all round for £ls. Special tyres had to be built for the world’s largest aeroplane, the Beardmore Inflexible. The tx*cmendous stresses of landing presented problems which could not be settled by ordinary methods and. special wheels with a breaking load of over 48 tons were built. The tyres are seven and a-haif feet in diameter and 16in. in cross section. Beside them the largest omnibus giant pneumatics are dwarfed.