POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 111, 7 November 1933, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAC#

It may be, of course, that the refusal of Greece to allow the extradition of that "wanted" financier is dut to nothing more.than Insullarity.

Latest advices from Washington report tliat the status quo of the AngloAmerican debt will be maintained, insistence on the "quid pro" being takea for granted. '. '♦ ♦ • ' It cannot be because the dairy in* dustry is declining that our teeth are the 'worst in the world, because even, tho New Zealand taxpayers arc being "milked" as never before. « »" ■ . » THE EESERVB BANK CONTROVERSY. Josh Billings in-his essay on "Th« Bumble-Bee" wrote: — "I don't blame the bumble "bee, not, enny other fellow, for defending hia sugar: it iz. tho fust and last Law -o'v natur, and i hope the law won't never run out. The ' smartest thing about the bumble bee iz their stinger." ■ • '#'■»' * INQUIRY. "Mothball," Masterton, ■writes: When tho Reserve Bank collars that £5,000,000 worth of gold fronv th« trading banks couldn't it sell it in London at a substantial premium and with. its share of the booty pay off. a big lump of the steadily mounting State. liabilities involved in tho 'high, exchange racket? • ■' • Perhaps it could, and will, do so, but we are not in the Government's coil* ndenee—P.F. ' * . • • • LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. An authentic example of French! nerves these days. Last month uproar developed at the. Valenciennes railway) station when a fiery Gaul in tho buffet asserted that the biscuits he was eafa ing were stamped "Hindenburg." Thai crowd pulled down the trays and trampled,, thorn, to pieces, after' which, the police arrived. The buffet manager sued tho customer.' The Judge re* served his decision after the manages had produced samples of tho: biscuits* All were'stamped. "Made in Edin* burgh." « ' • * 4* HIS FAMILY TREK. This is the talo of a man named Twigg who, was possessed of a.remarkable family tree. This he kept ever* green by retailing it to anyone sap enough to listen to him. He would blossom forth on occasions, and bark out epithets against all who questioned his remarkable/ancestry-and those who maintained that there was knot a grain of -truth in his assertions. Twigg was undoubtedly well endowed with chips, and maintained that the berries had1 been in the family for many general tions. Personally he was by no meanf a stripling, but though, boughed down with years he was of good heart and would never pine or let himself run. to seed. One day a young sapling from next door remarked: "Say, Twigg,, my family tree's as good as yours. I've a common ancestor with the King of England." "And who might that be," quoth the incredulous Twigg. "Adam," replied ttie young sapling; Ten minutes later a disconsolate Twigg had packed his trunk and was heading for the tall timber. . ; JIH. * ♦ » . POSTED .... MISSING. . "Alphonse."—Love seems to us-thjj last thing some of our bright young people think of before they marry. ..•■ ,'' Pantergruel.' '—A rather '. terrif yt ing pun. •,■•.,. '.-■•.<. :, :: . ' '"Alabama Baby."— Would: havo been somewhat improved hjd.^ you? rhymes rhymed and the\ lines: scanned! occasionally. >.- "E.P."—What! Another .one. with; that modernised aversion of the Psalm! There ought to be a'law, as they say in Anieriky. "Dirt-Tracker."—Thanks, but wel published something along those lines in this column's earlier days. ■ "Pommy."—Not for us, thank you. "Ragwort."—You mean well, butd no doubt, so does your white butterfly] friend. . . i vi.Amp."—A. current topic, as yoii say, but voltage is, over-powerful. . ''Belinda" (Nelson).—Though it M promising, you must do better than that to crash into this feature. <'Not So Hot."—lt isn't actually* but a rewriting :of the last two stanzas would help a lot. "Osca Rash."—Might find a nich« with a little manipulation. 8.8.C. —Thank you, but your jingl* fails to measure up. ',' * « * ■ A FARM TRAGEDY. Oh! tender-hearted townsman, mark!, If you would have a tearless eye, Don't fondly pet, or dandle on Your kneo, our daily food supply. Don't get too close to little things, Or hurry, to them, when they cougfy For. sad will be your state of mind, If suddenly they're taken off. I'll ne'er forget a little pig, Frailer far. than all the others; Wo friendly grew, then we becam* , In just a little-while as brothers. Thus every morning, noon, and night, Sweet company: wo kept for hours. Ah! Mary and her lamb were cold Beside affection" such as ours. Then came a day, that awful day, When I to table drew my chair,. To •, find, all cooked a dreadful brown* My murdered pet was lying there. I will not dwell upon my grief, For it would pain to write it downy' I hurried, gathered up my things, And, tearful, hastened back to town* Dogs have their "happy hunting grounds," Where they await us, this we knowjj Is there a place, with tender shoots, Whore little piglets, good, all got ] WORDSWORTH LITTLE, I * '• • ' HINT FOR MB. COATES. Sir Percy Flage,—lt;is essential that provision be made in the Reserve Bank Act to protect its Governor from the damaging spotlight publicity, that always ■ shines on high officials. Look how Sir Montagu Normaii has to act. Insufficiently disguised, he boards an. Atlantic liner, his movements being recorded everywhere, but when a hundred, miles out, he, wearing better-dis-guising clothes, transfers to a tugboat and returns to Threadnoedl© Street. The world's Press, thinking him in America, speculates on the reason for the visit, and consols drop, currency inflates or deflates^ gold wobbles about, fortunes are mado and lost, whilst the mystery man is probably indulging in. sausage and mash in his own home. Imagine tho happening-when our own Reserve Bank Governor, say Sir Byron. Jacketts, sets out for Christchurch by the super-super-de-luxe-transit (not ferry), and our very efficient newspapermen announco the fact. A finnn* cial panic would begin. Financiers, tho people, and politicians, just as now, would not know whero they were; and tho bank Governor would not be m Christehnvc.li at all, but in Auckland, heavily disguised. This expensive p'roceduro could bo avoided by n short clause in the Banking. Act t'orhicUlinj tho publication of his movovnonts.