"SAFETY FIRST!"

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 2

"SAFETY FIRST!"

In his reminiscences, recently published Sir Robert Ball, the astronomer, tells the story of a West Coast Irishman who decided to. remove his household belongings to one of the isles'of Arran. His furniture was packed carefully m the boat, and half-way across he turned anxiously to the'boatman. "Is all my furniture in this boat, Tim?" he asked, after another careful survey of his chattels.

"Sure everything is here, sorr," Tim answered. "I attended to the loadin' mess'lf."

"I do not see the piano, Tim!" "The piano is all right, sorr; I'm towin' it behind," was Tim's reply.