Words and Phrases - "similar"

RC referred to a passage from Barnwell Consolidated School District No. 15 v. Canadian Western and Natural Gas, Light, Heat & Power Co. in concluding that the word "similar" meant "of the same general nature or character", and went on to indicate that in the past it had regarded the following properties or services to be similar: (a) system software and applications software; (b) trucking of sand and gravel, and trucking of poultry and lumber; (c) mining and sale of metallurgical coal, and mining and sale of other minerals; (d) operating a hotel which includes a restaurant and lounge, and operating a restaurant and lounge; (e) operating a hotel or motel with no restaurant, operating a restaurant, and operating a hotel or motel with a beverage room but no separate restaurant, and operating a hotel with a restaurant; (f) operating a prime rib restaurant and operating a steak restaurant even where the latter is operated in conjunction with a hotel; (g) the sale of fast-food chicken and the sale of fast-food fish; (h) staging musical concerts in a stadium, and staging professional football; (i) security equipment, and electro-magnetic labels developed for use in libraries, hospitals and retail establishments; and (j) the manufacture of parts and major components for aircraft, and the design, manufacture and sale of aircraft.