THE LATE T “ HOWLERS"

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 22

THE LATE T “ HOWLERS"

Children taking part in (lie ' tional Lifeboat Institution’s < petition, have produced an i series of “howlers.” Some children thought th i task was to look after t y. “Tho Navy,” said one, “is ... and clover, hint lifeboats are neded to keep a watch over it.” Another wrote; “We have to have a Navy, and some captains who do not know much about navigation are as likely as not to run up against some of the dangerous jocks.”

Here are some more examples from the schoolboy essayists:— The Lifeboat Institution Aas started tn keep urn from loafing in the streets. The lifencat has a round shape and goes of its own accord. The lifeboat is so wonderfully constructed that it can carry more than it can hold. ~ „ , On>* essay referred to the obscuration” of roSks, another th fisiierinen as “tlie most sturdious of men, and a third to widows and children being left “ip. desparity.” »

It was shown timing investigation into n. maintenance ease at the lOaaistrate s Court at Hamilton recently that even a hmh educational degree did not jiccessonlv mean . affluent circumstances (reports the “Waikato Times’ . Counsel was claiming some merit in the title or At 4 as an argument why its possessor ehould he capable of earning more than I£2 a. week, when Mr. Wyvern Wilson interjected that he had known a man with a Dublin University degree who was an attendant in a bar.