RANDOM SHOTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)

RANDOM SHOTS.

(By " ZAMIEL.")

"Broadcasting Bill." That's right—l heard him Drink I notice is still being put down. "All licenses renewed." I agree that Mr. Seniple may be less dogmatic than categorical. Overheard: "I dropped £25 at Ellerslie —worst smack I've had since I went on sustenance." The French are being awfully French at the 'present "time, don't you think? Vive la franc! Yes. Horace, I appreciate, your jeu d'esprit —the coach builders' award is for wheel or whoa. It its agreed at Geneva that the world's Workers are underfed. "Fed up'' also expresses it in some quarters. America, anticipating war, will mobilise her industries. I just wonder if the corps of millionaires will '"fall in." Tt is feared there may be a shortage of skilled labour. Feared?—ami only 35,000 on relief. Have a little patience. Don't you think it is rather comforting that the myriads of the Fast are occupied —-with the myriads of the Fast? Tt has been proposed to send Stewart Island oysters to Auckland by air. T am all in favour of giving oysters the air. About two hundred and eighty million letters are delivered in Xew Zealand a year. Everything seems to be all write. The Government is looking for further means of revenue. If my infant daughter's little money box is of any service— In connection witli All TU>d Bontes. I learn that thousands of acres of beets are being planted this season throughout the Empire. | There are 100.000 motor vehicles in Xew Zealand. I learn, from a reliable source, that one of them recently missed a pedestrian. Paradoxically, although all the over-, seas wrestlers who invade Xew Zealand are modest fellows, they throw their weight about a bit. A snake 12ft long was killed in the main street of a Xew South Wales town. Queer thing is that the snake didn't know he was 12ft long. In the South there is a phenomenal demand for threepenny-bits. An i occasional inquiry for five pound notes has also been remarked. There has been #n acute shortage of water in several districts. Whatever do milk boards and other philanthropists do in such an impasse?

I doubt the truth of the message which says a U.S.A. women's jury decided a ease in three minutes. It is disproved that there was a local bargain sale. Unbreakable glass as pliable as rubber is promised. It won't matter now if the pedestrian is hit with a tyre or a windscreen. Simplifies it for coroners. Such a lot of dear little children who u«sed to mount Rajah, the rogue elephant still love liini so much that they go to see the taxidermist mounting him too. It is declared that (he thriving FrenchCanadian Dionne quintuplets would not have survived but for the doctors. Isn't it polite to add also "Thanks to nurse?" Objections are again being very justly raised at the word "Australasia." .1 believe it is just a conspiracy by publishers of maps. Intensive searches arc in progress. Ail eminent scientist hoping to overcome baldness in man is experimenting with sheep. He says they are much alike. Jhit the sheep has 110 income tax paper to fill in. I had been reading about the man who was fined £100 for "making a book." Then I read a modern "best smeller." I wondered why they hadn't fined the author £200 for writing a book. Xo, Horace, I fear you have misquoted the figures for the Xavy vote in the Swiss Assembly. You have added a nought too many. More British troops for the Holy Ijand. They do invent funny titles for countries.