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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3146, 25 March 1909, Page 5

A trial run was made the other day of the new taxi-cab service which has just been installed in. Christchurch. In shape the new vehicle resembles a four-wheeled cab and can be easily opened to form a landau. Alongside the driver in the front with the recording face towards the passenger is the apparatus for indicating the amount of the fare. So soon as the cab is hired the handle of the lever is pulled over and the flag goes down. This sets in motion the machinery which indicates the fare to be paid, starting with—the minimum sum. Then as the distance is covered the sixpences and threepences appear on the dial. There is another showing the amount payable for waiting whilst a lady is shopping, etc. This enables the passenger at once to ascertain the amount to be paid and saves any dispute. Many farmers believe that dandelions increase the yield of milk, and consequently that the presence of dandelions in pastuers and meadows is I rather desirable than otherwise. A Belgian investigator, J. P. Wanger, has shown the incorrectness of this opinion, which, he says, is founded upon wholly false analogy, suggested by the milk juice of the dandelion. According to Wagner the presence ot dandelions in large numbers in pastures exerts a very deleterious eftect on the quality of butter, and is one of the numerous causes of the difficulty of making butter of fine I flavour and good keeping qualities in spring and early summer. Thd presence of large quantities of dandelions in hay has a similar effect You cannot hear tne great operatic stars, but the great composers of music may be your daily companions. All you want is a uiano—a good piano. Ini'enur pianos are an irritation. The Dresden Piano Company stocks only goocl_ pianos, selected with spscial regard to X'ew Zcalaucl climate and conditions. Ihe Dresden Company is abso! jfcely straight la its dealing. That ia pr'umple. lon can buy a piano on,, suck efev ttf-WB tnatfyou* will scarcely tee l 'tlmt you are paym-.-;, f.-.v it. Mr '.SI. .1. Brookes i* nwn i,- r the Novch Island. Local repr t.e .tr.tivti Mr T. H. Hunter. . • ■••