THE PASSING SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 267, 10 November 1928, Page 9

THE PASSING SHOW.

;<By VWE MAN ABOUT TOWN!) .HOMES*' Ji correspondent to a newspaper recently adva.cated thei .introduction of silver;foxes into New Zealand.. ' .- . Dear Uttte rabbits! Cottontails, Ana deter that sweetly roam, Romnntiq animals that make New Zealand look like Home. Oh. see the chamois lcay about. They cca»e from o'er the foam. With moose-Gind porse and blackberry To make ttS! feel at Home. The parakee't, the blackbird, thrush; A man might nil a tome '■'..-,, With things that make New Zealand look So very xmßch like Home. And those wliK> introduced' them all To us acrosiP-the foam All sadly need » constable ■ ■ * To lock theffli in a home. ':.

•' The chairman of the Auckland Education Board publicly annotraoes that he will not become a newspaper censor, a correspondent having asked him to write THE SPELL. to- the Press beseeching it jaiot- to spell American Sashion. M.A.T, has ever since been reading .American newspapers axuT finds that many of :them havo been learning JEnglish. Time some iiof them in their columns; make-the traveler hthru the Inky way real -unfamiliar: We •scribblers have no defense*., in. the usage of .American forms, nor neetf we no doubt fall for this Bostonian orthograp.hy, but hand 'em the real bunk either on tjbe dais or in the quiet seclusion of a speakVrea.sy. Any locale will do to put over tlie hwlenin. And while we're improving ourselves never let us say "Akarana Hotel," but "Hot.el Akarana," it sounds all to tho liierry-menry. And let us I call it "Chateau Tongariro"—go ©d old-fashioned English!