NOTES BY THE WAY

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3242, 13 December 1930, Page 5

NOTES BY THE WAY

(By Rambler). Reading the Christmas advertisements in the Chronicle set me thinking. Where do they get the seeds for seedless raisins? The following story comes from a Sothern town noted for its Scotch accent:— While talking to a friend in the street a Scot who was suffering from a cold found it necessary to use his handkerchief. When the handkerchief was extratced from his pocket the friend was surprised to observe that wrapped up in it were a set of false teeth. “What,” he exclaimed, “do you carry a spare set of false teeth round with you? getting extravagant.” “It’s not extravagance, mon,” replied the Scot. “They’re not my teeth. They’re my wife’s. I’ve been suspicious that she’s been eating between meals.”

So the fusion between the Reform and United Parties is off. The United Party said Reform had made a mess of things; the Reform now state that Uniteds are making a still greater muddle ,and Labour says that both have tumbled the country into Queer Street. Taking a broad view of the situation, I should say that the three parties must shoulder the blame equally for our troubles of to-day, but I am neither a strong party partisan nor a politician, so am not supposed to know how a country is governed.

Australia, by the increase in her tariffs, sought to stand alone. As the country is now badly in want of money, a loan would be very acceptable.

In bold type a certain brewery announces per advertisement in an Acukland daily paper this week, that “1931 promises to be a bumper year.” —Bumper of bumpy?

Vital statistics for Te Kuiti for November, 1930, show figures sympathetic with the fall in wool prices.

I notice that jiu-jitsu classes are popular with young women at Home. Heavens! surely women have enough pull over the men already without this sort of thing!

Newspapers like other business organisations are feeling the pinch, but the circulation of a certain Southern daily (it is reported) received a tremendous fillip this week. Even the local agent for the journal in question sold out all copies.

According to the Commission responsible for the enforcement of prohibition in America, the sum of £1,000,000 was collected in fines, besides a large number of launches and motor vehicles. Evidently prohibition in the States is now paying for itself.

Don Bradman did not get his goodconduct .bonus of £l5O for writing articles on cricket to the papers. Five other members received the bonus, but what about the other members of the Australian team? They must have been guilty of something just as bad as writing for the papers.

We have a few bank collapses in the King Country during the rainy season, but these are soon cleared away. In the United States, however, bank slides are quite fashionable all the year round and it will take the land of the “Mighty Dollar” some time to clear the financial road.

The Guv-ment has decided to double the charge for getting out of the country. It’s hard enough to get into any country to-day without* making it more difficult to get out. It means, however, that overseas trippers • will contribute another £2OOO to the consolidated revenue by adding 50 per cent, to passport charges, so we who have to wait at home and see the depression through can’t grumble.

Most people support a political party because they expect it to support them. With this theory it will be seen how impossible it will be to form a National Government composed of all parties, for it would mean that the Government would have to suoport all the .electors.

“Are the boys of to-day becoming effeminate?’-’ was a question asked at a meeting of the Primary Schools’ Committees’ Association at Auckland this week. I can’t answer the question for certain, but believe that the youth of to-day is not so masculine as they were a quarter of a century ago, when if a boy was immaculately and had his hair parted in the centre and wore white flannel pants he was looked upon as a “Cissy.” Girls on the other hand have developed in a masculine way, and can hold their own with the young manhood of the country in tennis, swimming, golf, rowing, hockey, and can drive a motor car with the best of the opposite sex. So it is unfair to state that the effeminacy of the youth of to-day is due to them being taught by women teachers.

In Russia the Soviet is offering rewards for greater efficiency and effort on the part of the workers. No wonder Russia hopes ot flood the world with cheap goods while the goslow policy is a feature amongst the workers of many other countries. There is something to. be learned from Russia after all.