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Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 43, 14 January 1921, Page 15

English lifeboatmen receive payment on a scale ranging from 15s for summer day service to £3 7s 6d for service covering a day and night during winter. The most famous of lost treasures is that supposed still to exisfc . among the Cocos Islands, which lie some 500 miles west of Panama. No less than £12,000,000 is the value spoken of, and within the past 25 years half-a-dozen costly expeditions have vainly sought for this enormous fortune. A man weighing" eleven stone has in him enough fat to make five pounds of candles, and enough phosphorous to put heads on 2200 matches. He has iron sufficient to make a one-inch nail, and lime enough to make whitewash to cover a small shed. As for carborr — black lead — there is in his body an amount equal to filling over a thousand pencil3. There is also a "poonful of sugar, a pinch or so of salt, ad nine and a-half gallons of water.