HUTT NOMINATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1941, Page 8

HUTT NOMINATIONS

Nominations for the municipal elections at Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt, Petone. and' Eastbourne will close on Monday at noon.

IMPORTANT TRIFLES

It was stated with indignation in a newspaper recently that the Ministry of Food was actually haggling about a sum which would not'represent more than a farthing, on a two-pound pot of marmalade, says the "Manchester Guardian." It does sound rather trifling, put in that way, but one is reminded of the first Lord Rothschild and a discussion which had been going

time about the relative

values of those beautiful. Coins—alas! apparently not to be seen again by the ordinary citizen—the English and the Australian sovereigns. The point at issue was that the Australian. sovereign then represented a value greater by a halfpenny than the English coin. A. young, man who had been listening to the discussion present expressed s'gme contempt. Ri-vng ,tq go,, he said, "And all this talk about a wretched halfpenny!" There was a slight pause and then Lord Rothschild remarked gently;. "Do.-you";know.-'I- dphH fancythat young gentleman can hays had" much to do with-large financial trans.actions," ■•, ■ ; '