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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1916, Page 5

stroke. For farming purposes St can W| run on distillate, but in military service l it is fed on the best of petrol. It div. velops 75-horse-power—American ratingf —and consumes a gallon of petrol atli hour. It' is perched on th« front partj of the chassis, as in the ordinary tour in jj. ear of commerce, and is set very with an enormous radiator. There arfli two speeds forward and one reverse. Tlw] top gear gives a speed of six miles a# hour, and the second and reverse ar«j each good for about two and a-lialf milev un hour. The car will climb almost any, grade short of perpendicular, will puty through loose sand, clamber ovel trenches, auiblc serenely through barbed! wire entanglements, and break its way through fences. There is one of thesf tractors in use in Hastings to-day, which lias hauled CI) tons of road jnetal in out) train. ■ DIGCIXG AXD FII.UXG TRENCHES.,' In-addition to its enormo.is tractiri pi .vers and its adaptability to any 3ort of country, the "Catcrpillai"' lias distinct iuilitary uses in the matter of digging trenches. It will dig a tfeneh '"in 'ts stride," and, with equal facility, with* nit another set of tools attached, it '>'!■ i'U up a trench already dug. Re- . :ng..the, method of armoring tho i Of course, nothing can be ftaid. Ti.. Vactor weighs fl>/ 3 tons without! ami. and n dozen tons or so of armor wovle only impiovi its tractive capa* \ The platform en the chassis is a largf-'/uid roomy one, and sliould pro* vHVy.Vipnmadation for one or two fair* sqliffti. x men to serve tiiem. llr. i. slop states that one of tlieia tractors "1 just been delivered in New Zealand i. he order of his lirni, m\d he, personally; .Jrisiik'rc.l that it would 1)8 considerably more use.'ub at the front, no'iv that the iay foi using this class ot tractor had tl. .uitriy arrived- in France, The cost of the :mu'hiue was fiJKO, and i ''ree ui,nur doners would provide £3915 firm would he prepared to allow in',. "-'or to be sea: tu VvaKCu as New ZiMlu... s gift.

IN A TRAM CAB. A '*iu!iu;r Christ of Cuba SfweS, Wei luigtoit. ivas ovevlitwr;! to my thut "tlx gornijeidui p; , op?rtit , s of Fluonzol malre ;( a suitabU' sufe'soard aiwimt the ot Infantile Paralysis." Each jnotnin gaule ti teaspoonful of Flueurol 11'6 an 2;6) while, lvinj. do\V n 011 the hack aiu' tjnu irrigaw th« anal • civity ajiij