RANDOM SHOTS

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

RANDOM SHOTS

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We may . expect gnat crops from Hew Zealand-land next■ year. It; is being lavishly fertilised with; political promises. r: ;

Tom Heeney says that any New Zealand boxer going to America should take hia scrap hook with. him. "Scrap" book is a very suitable nam* 5? y

"Safety first? Is 'thet motto of. Kingsford Smith and' Uhn. When they-grow old-they wiUlbokupitavfietMnsry meaning. '

'» A New Zealand airman at his old school and took his headmaster for a flight. What a glorious opportunity he had to Work off old scores!

. H.M.A.S. Australia, one of the finest cruisera afloat, steamed from Wellington to" Brisbane in less than three days. Her officers and crew are now sure of being in, time for the Melbourne Cupu

; Somememhers of «ho House o£ Bepresentativesaresaying that Parliament should last four, or five years. Others, again, win be satisfied and thsnkful M they get back for three.

"More business _in Government and less Government.' In business" is still tto slogan of the Government, Mr. Goatee says. This should gain first nrize m any collection of "things we don't expect" to see."

Ik* Msoris on the Esst Coast, we bare ben told, hsvo "bmSl SZ hatdwt.", - .This "Ja not the first time they havn done it. la the dd dnstkt pesture was usually followed by another buriaL

Gsptain Dewar. Mo of the Boyal Oak, hss been appmnted to the «f nS T r Ts ®" r ' wUA * * * explained, is' a Isss shipu Hot important enoogh, iiope, to e£ry a jasa band. '

One lady poßtteaf^enttato addnmed aidrws, the hack oTwhidi waa "absebtefy devoid "of trimming." rf°£ , u d^, W " m * mMt toba

to tneaty.passsngpn, the "k®Md 1009 bottles j' P* two *il rf fhsininsaii One^ttETv mained at the end. In a progress report we were told that the pSsSmrsTSe •ntremely air-sick. ;

klDsn, who ean be hired to kffl at prices ranging from five dollars to 900 dollars."' Iho mnlen in the fair city average one per day, so that, even if preaumptuoua amateurs are left out of the ealeuSonT """W wt ha keen. Cut-throat competition, In fset.

: _*Tho prices of your houses fill one said Lord Lovat, and he

Tbo Wellington motorist's story that recently during an evening drive ha had . passed a peUeaa haa heea by a local ear.ownA; who, when^^S the Titirangi Hill, said he had passed f®n*etiiing big in the dusk and thduriit »t was a puffin. When hia elderly neigh-bour-came up from his stroll hslf an hour later he said he was.

rn» oldest love-letter In the World is m the British Museum. It la a proposal of marriage for the hand of an princess, and is hi the form of an Inscribed Iwidc." If the lady rejected the proposal, I suppose she returned the brick, either gently or violently, as befitted her feelings. On the other if she-accepted, ahe would save all her love-letters to build a house. i

One of the penalties apparently inseparable from the political life is the necessity of being ''patron" of Institutions of all kinds. What a shock the Wakapuaka Cage Bird, Violin and Whippet Society would receive if on notifying the local lIP. that he had been elected patron, he replied, not with the customary guinea, but with the blunt, but honest intimation, "Not interested."

"UP H THE AIK!"

"I am afraid the New Zealand elector will.be left up. in the air."—Political candidate's speech.

Onward, up. aloft, away — the cheers of thousands ring; .' • - The throbbing haza of motors—and the ■ aeroplane!# a-wing. Boon she's bat a blrdling in the distant western, iky, w --. — And thoughts of all go with the env as A anxious moments fly. On, on, on, through wind and storm, on i through the day and night. No height nor ocean depths caa daunt the ■ - heroes of the flight, , And pulsing through the ether come the . tidings which declare ' "They're going strong!" "They're bearing i right!'" "They're still up in the air 1"

Hooray for heroes of the air! No Word of voice or pen ' ~ * ■ Can pay the tribute rightly due to valiant >.. flying men. These human eagles ' soaring high, with 'giant wings unfurled. Are mapping out the highways -of the . celling of the world; From pole to pole, o'er desert wastes, where : sweeping cyclones run, ' They pierce the curtains of the clouds, and race the flying sun. And down to ,earth there Alters news from " lofty, eyries where the news to waiting friends, "We're up—up in the air!"

Ttal® aytation parallels the daily coarse of When politics disturb as with tfca «•!—fc of __ party strife; „ * w which Wh SL-*S ers PUotless, alone.' erratic, DrHtalmlesJf'y, responsive t* the whim of the controls, • •.: • And atyrewd observers, looking at their ■ tattered signs of wear, . ■ - their 8X>.8.. "Help, help, we're hwt, op in the air!**

IMS phrase win «ptty nmuaarlse oar - feelings m wewait - ■ With bnatUoi trepidation for the »*«» election date; . We can't help (letting "breesy," when the atmoapheMV attre ' ' With Labour and United fig*tins Coataa't fifty-flye; ■ °* > * **■ «•* - mi And gasps «aid' opposing ■tonaa tor H!« he Is left "v ia tap airi - ■ -• U...;- -,;-f i afti, "~-Y^