POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 91, 18 April 1932, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

SY PERCY FLAGE

"I note in your contemporary," writes "Wildun Woolly," "that Ngai» wants fire-alarms, as do Khandallah and Melrose. Wiry not employ an. incendiary?" . . • *-* . * We have it on the usual unreliable* authority that our: Mr. Jack Shearer, who, it is: reported, has staged as. many; farewell appearances. as the late Dame Melba, stripped • this season again in order to exploit the 3-2-3 packing of the scrum. :' -■ ;.' . ' ■■' ■ ■'■* .'.■.' * " '*' ' ■-,' '-. "?': Heading from an American journal: \ FALLS EN" HOT WATESi BAS* * CEITICAL. -V :' ■: •Lot us hope it will not turn v"iridi«* live. . ;-■ ■ ■-..- ---:' • *' ■ *"'■•' '"'-"'^V "■'•; NOTICE. . - : : "The annual general meeting* oi 1M Parents' Association will be ; held 6a ... All parents are ui-ged to- attend. New parents will be particularly; welcome." ; :\ Of course the.babies will be brought with them. •• .- . . .... * « .■»''. ■> ■ ■-•" " SIGNS OF THE TIMES.' ; Dear Percy Hage,—The.."' following appears on a window of an empty shop facing the War Memorial: in -Bowea street, right opposite the big'talk shop: "Gnashional; reducing parlour. Main: office Parliament Buildings, come right in, Eeducing a pleasure." ? ' '■':•■ In Elizabeth street, Sydney, the following, sign was some years ago displayed over an hotel entrance:. "The Eising Sun, Will Shine.Xproprietor);^ ?:•-■■'. "■ ■ -./.-.i'- "WAGGER." .-;-. - ■ -;*a:' * --♦' .' .:.■'• ■■.'. ,"■. BOUNDS A GOOD; SCOTT.' Hinde, of Loadim, *S an influential church assembly: : ■;;'■■' My. own restricted experience p? the laity is, I quite frankly confess, that they are very: queer people, but: no more queer than the bishops; priests, and deacons; V - - ..Now, that's1 the .sort' of cleric' wij1 wouldn't mind lunching with. " '■'-'■ ' ht ■ '■ ■' '■ * ■•■■•" ■■■.-■-#',-■ :■-"■-;.'-:■.:> '.■... : . -THE BOLIJTIOJSf. .: <f--■ !■ About that word of one syllable whicK becomes oneo£ two syllables on being decapitated: " ■•'■■.-..■ •• ;- ..*' In this equine-stricken" land whera the aggregate of horse-worshippers out* -numbers that of all other- religions/ and where the trembling Budget would, be knocked off its perch by a reduction' of duty on fowl wheat, I am'surprised that the horse-worshippersand hen fruit growers did not. find the qbvioiis.ana-' not a (v)ague, solution by the combination of these kinofred sports in thn little word "Egg"—geegee.• ■%> T -?: :S-^.::.:.- ''r::'": ' ~ :PHAB'LAp3; ' -■ -■ ♦• ■ * - ♦ ■ ■ -■■-•■ THE BOG: WHY WE'EE-iN IT. ''' :-.The above heading'is illustrated by the following. Of the dozens" I'vtf asked, the following simple problem in economics, not one individual has been able to answer it. This is the problem. ■; I. have £10,000 - (my .total capital) _in;the bank.*;.;, 4. So'ciaUsfc Government,', in order to curry favour ':' thej ■f ■'mob,' *■ is seriously threatening- to • conscript wealth. Thereupon : I -'ship for England. I land, in England with'i £io,ooo Hquia capital (not- paper) A leaving the .original £10,000 still in I New. Zealand.- How do Ido it? ■: The ' answer is:-I transfer my; account-.to a I New, Zealand produce :firm, taking in" exchange a & 10,000, shipment- of pro-.' duce, and sail with it to England.- : A voice from the wilderness: "Ohl i We'lJ deal with them"'blighters by putting a 30 per cent, tax on exports^ and "let' loose ai display of fireworks among the farmers."',"" ; •' ; ; ; ■■";, vTHE BOG. ■-•■-.■ * * ."•'•..■.-.■ MARY'S LAMB.'.' - - Mary had a little lamb, " - '% But here's the point to note —- .-. When Forbes had finished flee"cinq it It looked more like a goat. - ( It followed her to school one day,. : 'Twas there it's luck wentphut; ■ ■■ For George turned up and dealt it onfl A graduated out. i ' . . ■ . Well shorn the lamb-^-nor was.. th» wind : ■ . ■ t Unto it tempered any: .•-.-.' ; A truly lam(b)entable sight, '" Though one of, mirth to many." .; It made the children laugh and play,, 'Tis sad the tale to tell— ; Those youngsters soon got home t» ; find--: ; Their Dads were shorn as well. Poor Mary!—'twas a blow to lose The pet she had adored— The carcass I am told went to The Education Board •- -. ; To supplement a dwindling grant— And now I'll call to mind : The Bard has sung, "A fellow-feel- ; Ing makes us wondrous kind:" ' So, friends,. though norm'ly you ba ■ tough, . :. 6, And caring not a slam,..^ When weeping o'er your * wage-tax^ save : A small tear for the lamb. : The lamb who lost his snowy fleece, : Whose carcass was bled whiter, / Who gambolled not . . he'd nothinc left " ' To gamble with, p'oor^lighter! '"■ . . J.H. * ..- • ft' • ' IN 1913. ; ■ ■That women's deputation whicli' called on the Minister of TJneiiploy-i ment and made threats—at ' least ] one speaker did—remind us -of a similar incident when the 1913 strike^ looked to bo developing dangerously." The strike leaders deemed it necessary; to thp furtherance of their plans that, the members of a, eertaih big union in." the North Island should bo calledout.; The general secretary of that union had his own opinion as to the lightness of the strike or its prospects of success. He had withstood the bullyings and browbeating of the men who had charge of the affairs when, on a sudden inspiration, it was decided to send, a deputation composed of wives of mem-' bers of his own union along to chango his_ mind. We happened to be in aa adjacent oflico when the women, arrived, and heard * everything. The Amazons opened quietly enough, showing that they had been well schooled for the task entrusted to them. They: appealed to him in the interests "of solidarity, etc., to bring the nnion'into line. Competing one with another for; his notice,, they began to show, impatience. When by courteous argument ho strove to persuade them of the folly and hurt of the move they proposed, impatience grew into heat, ana presently we could picture the official thd target of some pretty choice invective. The storm raged for quite a time, but the secretary remaining immovable, the deputationl reluctantly de-. parted metaphorically spitting venom. That union did not "come out,-" and the strike fizzled, to its predestined | end.