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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 99, 21 January 1926, Page 6

There was a look of astonishment on the face of an applicant who hobbled into the Auckland relief office with the aid of a crutch, when he was told that onlv a short time before he was seen bowling down the street without the aid of anv support (states the Auckland “Star”). He explained that the spasms took him suddenly, and it was then that he had to use the crutch. Another man who leaned heavily on a very stout stick when he came in, forgot about the stick when he got up to go out, and did not miss it for some time afterwards. This led the inspector to sav that if he could make a collection of all the sticks which he thought were quite unnecessary to the users, he believed he could stock a shop with them. Large numbers thought leai-.m? on a stick was an impressive way of pressing their claims for relief. Alanv stories are told illustrative of the intelligence of rats, but some people arc wondering whether these animals ■ arc endowed with the faculty of musical appreciation (remarks the “Southland Tinies”). The by no means extensive audience at the Invercargill Municipal Theatre one night on the occasion of the Stralia concert, was reinforced by a remarkably well-developed specimen, ’who took his place in the dress circle, creating quite a disturbance among several ladies who peroaived