POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Curious how, in. sympathy, with that flurry of correspondence, the weather should have become increasingly weta and weta. : "" . *;. * * "It is beginning to look as though the miners at least will not peranit themselves to be Bulli'd into surrender to Lang," says "Amos-'nNAndy." *.',*■. *. ■ - You could tell he was a well-bred Englishcr when he put his penny in. the slot machine and said "Thank j?ou'*. as h.e took a cigarette. ■ ■ ■ ■ * - • #'■ : » Mars lias another troubled night's sleep. The 103-year-old ZelosophiC Society of the ' University iof Peansylvania has decided by three Tote* not to fight for "any objective wiiatsbever." . '■*■■' * * ■' ■ ■ All Soccer matches were postponed on Saturday because of the weather. The ladies' hockey games were played as usual. Now you can better tinderstand what is happening to Godber't merry men across the Tasman. • «• •* *■•■■. NOBLE IDEA. This column will lend its support to the British proposal to abolish bomb- • ing from the air except for recalcitrant; hill tribes if the missiles.are restricted to tear bombs. That would make tha Pathans weep their eyes out, and, consequently, lose their way. ' ' «■ # ■» DANZIG GOES TECHNOCRATIC. , Danzig, prominent in the news thesd days, has recognised technocracy; officially. The Senate has decreed1; that machinery or labour-saving davices may be installed in factories ( only 'with the special permission o£ the Government. Heavy penalties are to be imposed for viojations; even, in extreme cases, to the closing down of offending factories. * •■*.-.♦'■ "SUPER SHEEP." Those North Island sheep farmers should get in touch1 with our old friend, Dr. Vqronoff, who claims to be able to create "super sheep" by gland transplanting. Given an extra gland, says Voronoff, a six-months-old "woolly" will attain a normal two and a half years' development at eighteen months. Inbreeding of suck sheep would perpetuate the strain without more gland grafting. Perhaps. *y • * ODE TO THE MOTOR-OAR. They tell me of you, motor-car, They talk of piston, rings. They talk of plugs, and tappets to« t And other funny things. But motor-car— Oht motor-car, I da. so want t6 know, Tell me this, oh, motor-car! Whafc is it makes you go? These \nystie things are mixed up mi some wondrous way together; I know that much—and not much nioraj —but I do not know whether The engine turns the wheels around* - the horn begins to blow, Or* else the wheels turn the insides, , and make the darn thing go.! Oh, motor-car, oh, motor-car,. I do SO want to know, Which of all those funny wheeJs is it that makes you,go? , ■ . ' ' :;; ' JUNIUS. j :-:'■ ;■■•.•■ -'• ',-;•'• . • ■;. r'! ■-.; 'i ' HIGH DIGNITY AT WOiRK. Anti-climax. The "New ■* Yorfc Times?' gave, Mr. George B: Shaw six columns when he opened fire in New York. ■ Whea Smaw reached England again "The. Times" announced the fact in the following paragraph printed, minus a heading, in the smallest type: "Mr. George Bernard Shaw returned to England yesterday in the Empress- of Britain- after a voyage around - th* world." . ■ . 1 ' * ' ■". • , .■ • .BETA GETA WETA SWEATA... What a deal has now been uttered,!; What a pot a'ink has sputtered Arguing, for worse or beta, Round about the brown-ringed weta. By the-scribbling you've had screed^ on, ' ■ ' There's no end to what he feeds on;■ { Kohekohe, rewarewa; (Still they flourish howsoinedever), . Kawakawa, makomako, Gormandising like a shark-o; : Wharawhara, and konini (What a pain beneath his pinny), Never ceasing on the chewchew, More voracious than tho huhu. He has had so much attention, Mr. Plage, I'd like to mention, 'Twouldn't be a bit surprising Should you see them advertising— _ "Weta patterns for these days, lmssi Weta-stripe is all the craze, miss.' - Lambton houses would be bumpers; Town like bush, for brown-nngef jumpers! . Two lines more, to add just tlns^sir— (Counsel never comes amiss, sir)^Should you geta lady weta Do not freta; beta peta. WHO WHO? * * ;■* ■•" •: ■ WHITE TIGERS MAUL HUTT. "Howitzer" at the microphone:— Old Boys owe their victory to tha white tigers and the "real regular Auckland . Saturday afternoon , . . vide' Christie,• the. New Zealand Soccer skipper, prior to the match m Australia. • •"•_„ The college veterans will be reviving that popular patriotic jsong, ■" Tommy, Atkins," if their, second five-eighth* goes on in such fine style. .'. ' . It was boots all the way; needed,for, victory at the Park. ' . . Jack, Lamason, the 0.8.5» winging skipper, would make a "bird;' of the line if he had to push his weight halt as much as the other seven battlers m the front row.. .',.' :' Lilburne was there, as solid as tn« Bank of New Zealand. Killeen likes the top of the ground: no use backing him in. the Winter Hurdles. Many and varied wrestling holts were exhibited on Saturday. There is talk of Alick McDonald engaging "Whisks ers" Blake to teach the Whites som9 of the famous scissor movements. ' Bill Peck and Ned Berry were- up. in the clouds, and what, a helping hand they gave Hutt! .■'. Strange to relate, the ambulance man's flask received less attention than on any_ previous Saturday. So there— it's not what you thought it wasJ The local bylaws should be amended to insist on the players wearing head (and tail) lights after 4.30, otherwise the- onlookers will be demanding their money back. They don't pay to-get eye-strain chasing shadows in the last quarter of an hour. Marist "came the Roman" on Poneko again, though Alf Griffiths tried to break the hoodoo by flaunting the green and white colours in tho faces of his red-and-black lads. If Otaki form is' more difficult tha coming weekend than picking the winner of the 1933 senior A champion-1 ship, then it's the Athletic Park on June 3 for me. ■ : There is some talk of; recalling our Soccer boys before they start playing some of tho ' backblocks teams Of ■New South Wales. Harry Godber must be realising that rats collecting wasn't 'such a, tough job after all, : _.