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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1734, 23 April 1930, Page 5

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We have received another ultramarine Limerick. Sir, you shock our modesty. We would have you know ,that this is a respectable journal. There's one thing. By the time the Naval Conference comes to an end all the ships of- war we've got now, look like being obsolete anyway. This is St. George's Day, and we read that the dragons at the London Zoo have been found so responsive to petting and kindness' that'the reputation,, of this beast for ferocity is thought to have been exaggerated: St. George doesn't seem to have understood dragons; . . ' . -, A new War book is said to contain "all soldier words; all." We congratulate the- fellow who managed to get them all. into one book We notice from recent % . trade lists that in spHe of the fact that there is no war on,' several firms are still 'making plum-und-apple jam. We are told of a Dunedin denfist who displays a bust of- Dante. Yet one could have thought that v a dentist's clients needed no reminder of the. Inferno. From Limerick: —i A Voltairean infidel fell , Down his Louis Quartorze-y stair-well; He continued to fall Past the first floor and hall Till he finally landed in/ just outside" the entrance to the cave where they kept the coal for the • furnace.