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World of Nature

THE HUNTER

SUPREME

THE cheetah, beautiful

companion of princes, has long been admired for its grace, docility and speed. Since time immemorial it has been used by royal hunting parties for the chase.

In recent times it has been used for catching antelopes for zoological collections and, in the US, it has been the only efficient destroyer of the coyote. When taken hunting by man it is hooded rather in the fashion of the falcons of

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DISASTER ON A WINDY DAY Credit Card to Linda Ann Wu.

Marriage

【ARRIAGE is for fools,

M

A trap entered when blinded

By charms, moonlight and

music

By fluttering eyelashes

And coy smiles

Or so they say.

[ARRIAGE is for people,

MAR

A harmony between two minds, A disharmony between

ideas.

MARRIAGE

bility-

two

is a responsi-

Taken on maturely, wisely- Children, when things are rough Illness when help is far away. MARRIAGE is a play

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old; then, when sighted, the hood is lifted and the leash slipped the cheetah does the rest. From a standing start it can, in two seconds, reach 45 miles an hour. The black buck, the fastest of the Indian antelopes, even when given a dozen yards' start,

can be brought down with a blow of Torn curtains.

its paw in 100 yards.

The cheetah is Nature's answer to the problem of speed. No other animal can

With no small parts— Only a leading man and A leading lady

TARRIAGE is grubby walls,

MA

Spankings, scoldings, Burnt casseroles,

[ARRIAGE is also

MA

Games in the garden A faded rose picked By a grubby hand From the pavement.

approach it. A racehorse Or a useless gift can, at maximum, produce And an expensive one, too. 48 m.p.h., the grey-hound Ma hand,

ARRIAGE is

40 m.p.h., but the cheetah has A strong shoulder, been timed over 700 yards at An outstretched arm.

a

71 m.p.h. and, when pursued MARRIAGE is a union by a car, it is claimed that it reached 80 m.p.h.

Barry Driscoll

Between two people Together in the Grace of God-

helping

I say.

--ALTHEA YOUNG

THE

A PENCIL HELD CLOSELY IN FRONT OF THE HUMAN EYES WILL BE SEEN AS A DOUBLE IMAGE IF THE EYES ARE CONCENTRATING, OR FOCUSING ON A DISTANT OBJECT.

STAMP NEWS ★

THE 1885 ISSUE

THE 48c.

and 96c.

Tstamps were with-

two

drawn in June, 1885; they were the last values which did not con- form to the decimal cur- rency. Three new values were issued: 30c., 50c., and $1.

For some reason the Colony was not prepared to go to the expense of new plates and the prin- ters were instructed to print the stamps in the original colours from the 30c., 48c., and 96c., plates and overprint them 20c., 50c., and $1 respec- tively.

The stamps were print- ed on CA paper, and none

20 50 CENTS CENTS

DOLLAR

are known on this paper is unsurcharged condition.

The new stamps can hardly be called pro- visionals for all three

values prior to those of the King Edward issue made in 1903 were sur- charged in this way.

As the overprinting was done in course of making the stamps there are no varieties other than one sheet of 20c. on 30c.

•

known to have been doubly overprinted (cur- rently catalogued at £30 in mint condition).

1885 issue: Crown CA

wmk: perf. 14

SG 37 20c. on 30c. (15)

38 50c. on 48c. (31) 39 $1 on 96c. (19)

THIRD EYE

(plate 2)

THE EYE MUST CHANGE FOCUS TO SEE CLEARLY

THINGS AT

· DIFFERING

DISTANCES.

DO YOU

KNOW?

1-What is the unit of measurement for elec- tric current?

2-What is the correct name for the Bee- featers?

3 Who

founded the

Young Men's Christian Association?

4-Who wrote (a) Gul-

liver's

Travels;

(b)

Travels with ¤ Donkey; (c) The Traveller? 5-What are the Christian names of the Prince of Wales?

6-What commodity is

sold by the cran? 7-Who was Joseph Vis-

sarionovich Djugash- villi?

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IF NEAR OBJECTS ARE OVERLOOKED, BOTH THE

EYE AND THE CAMERA LENS, AT A GIVEN APERTURE, CAN SEE EVERYTHING TOLERABLY WELL WITHOUT BOTHERING ABOUT FOCUSING.

IF CONCENTRATION IS BROUGHT TO SEAR ON THE

PENCIL IT IS SEEN CLEARLY AS ONE IMAGE, BUT THE BACKGROUND OBJECT IS NO LONGER DISTINCT.

THE CAMERA LENS MUST BE ADJUSTED IN THE SAME WAY. THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IS

DISTANCE.

A PARTICULAR LENS, AT A PARTICULAR

APERTURE MAY BE RELATED

EVERYTHING BETWEEN HALF

THE HYPERFOCAL

DISTANCE AND

TO WHAT IS KNOWN AS ITS HYPERFOCAL

DISTANCE.

INFINITY IS THEN

ACCEPTABLY IN FOCUS.

HYPERFOCAL DISTANCE

INFINITY

THIS IS HOW

INEXPENSIVE SINGLE APERTURE CAMERAS WORK. THEY ARE PERMANENTLY FOCUSED ON THE HYPERFOCAL

DISTANCE OF THE LENS AT ITS FIXED APERTURE. THE

PHOTOGRAPHER HAS ONLY ONE PISTANCE TO JUDGE

THE DISTANCE CLOSER THAN WHICH OBJECTS WILL ALWAYS BE OUT OF FOCUS.