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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)

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Some write a neighbour's name to lash. Some write —vain thought—for needful cash, , , ■ Some write to please tjie country clash And raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash, X write for fun.

Prosperity Weak?

LXIII

Quite all right to build four-storey flats in Princes Street and the vicinity, but six? That's another story. Two, in fact.

Hitler bans women who paint and powder. Nazi slap in tho face for Gretchen.

Tear gas bombs were recently thrown in Wall Street. Bulls and bears were n full cry.

The musicians' dispute remains unsettled. The silver chord is out of tune, apparently.

There is a phenomenal crop of twin lambs this year. They are just as like as peas —green peas.

Gandhi has been sent to gaol for another year. He is leaving his spare kit to the untouchables.

All 'the big guns are saying that there are too few of them on the trade routes. We niuet never let the walls of Jellicoe fall.

Would it be correct to, say that tho recent deportation of a British engineer from Turkey is an example of giving him the bird?

Upwards of eight thousand people recently used an Auckland suburban train in one day. Still, this breakneck speed is rather unnerving.

Dean Inge, the world-famed dean of St. Paul's, is to retire from his sacred office. It is understood he may write occasionally for newspapers.

So frightful bave been the football fights in Belgrade that audiences must in future consist only of reporters and policemen. What a gate!

Extract from an Australian paper: "The chair-was taken by the Commissioner of Taxes." Theee servants of the State will apparently take anything.

A New Zealand Minister of the Crown declares that children are'smarter nowadays than they were in his time. This political humility is exceptionally touching.

A "magistrate expresses surprise at the large number of motor car owners who have no money. But a traffic cop friend of mine assures me that many a motorist receives a check every day.

The more or less abortive international economic conference held at the new Geological Museum, at Kensington, is over. The delegates have dispersed. The fossils, however, remain.

Lakes Rotorua and Rotoiti are becoming shallower, and it is feared the trout arc endangered. Trout-fishers hardly know to whom to write —the chief engineer or Sir. Vulcan. A protest lodged with Providence might do a bit of good.

"Ebor" writes: "The oldest ship in Australian waters is the Edina, and slie is also the oldest passenger steamer in the world. She took troops to the Crimea in 1855." Does any reader know which is the old,est steamer in New Zealand waters?

"I see," said the talkie fan, "that splendid picture, wholly English in tone, was made in America." "Yes," replied the habitual Aueklander, "I s'pose they hadn't the money in England" "No, perhaps, you are right; I notice that there were only two thousand people at a London cocktail party the other day, and the people were -so poor they had to reduce the price of tickets to £5 a nob.