RANDOM SHOTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

RANDOM SHOTS

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. After the first Test ,we may say that indeed New Zealand's national game is football. Even our batsmen make football scores.

The gentlemei? who say they haven't slept for 15 or 20 years really have little to complain of. They ought to be used to it by now. '

The tramways" lost property department, reports that fewer articles than usual were left in the trams; in the holiday season this year.—No doubt, there were fewer umbrellas forgotten.

; There is, one comforting aspect of the speed- trials on the Ninety Mile Beach. If the car is. started at one end of the beach, its driver ought to be able to stop it before it hits the other.

"It is reported in diplomatic circles that the Princess Marie Jose brought a dowry of £850,000." We now perceive an additional reason for calling the young lady "eligible."

Married women who go on teaching come in for a great deal of criticism. If the Government passed a law to prevent married women helping their husbands in shops, would that law be criticised as an interference with private enterprise ?

Mr. Lloyd George, who has been told that a section of the Liberal party has no confidence in him,, may happen _ to remember that not a party, not a nation, but a whole Empire,, and even the greater part of the world, once backed him to the limit.

Miss Helen Wills, the" tennis champion, has been married to a San Francisco business man. The bride's promise to obey was omitted from the wedding service. On the tennis court, if nowhere else, it will not be the bride who will do the obeying.

Last year in New Zealand 13,888 letters and letter-cards were posted | without an address. Some public men and journalists who spend 'many hours reading letters, /will wish the number of absent-minded people were not greater.

A New Zealander proudly tells the world that he grew hair on his bald head *by means of a treatment, part of which is to rub the head with a raw onion. The probability is that he is a bachelor. If he is not, one wonders whether his wife would no,t have preferred his baldness.

On arriving in Auckland Sir Benjamin Fuller said that he was "still a food faddist," and he had had only four meals on the ship coming from Sydney. Many travellers are able to say with some feeling that they had fewer than four meals when crossing the Tasman. But it wasn't the food that kept them out of the dining saloon.

The theory that, there may; be a fifth dimension was put forth recently by Professor Richardson. When asked whether he could describe it, Professor Richardson merely smiled and shook his head. "Physics," he said, "has become more and more incomprehensible." I hope this theory won't be established until we hav« had time to understand Einstein's relativity theory, which is incomprehensible to most of us.

The National Hunt Committee is to decide the puzzling case of Miss Jean Sanday, who mounted a horse, 'which had thrown its rider, atnd finished the race in" second place. The rules say nothing about women, ' but "any man able to make the proper weight is entitled to replace a disabled jockey." Miss Sanday is not likely to have many followers, when the women know that after the race they will have to be publicly weighed.

"Packaged meat is the newest product of one of the biggest American packers. It is wrapped neatly in the same kind fcf transparent paper used by confectioners." This innovation may be popular, especially with the men, if the meat can be so. disguised that none will know that it is meat that the husband is carrying home. Up till now, the disadvantage of meat parcels has been that they never look like anything else.