NOTES BY THE WAY

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4872, 18 July 1936, Page 5

NOTES BY THE WAY

(By Rambler). Better taxis and less taxes is the Government's next problem.

Some earring! "Lost, Long. Earring, from Lamb ton Quay to Boulcott Street."

Next thing Germany will be demanding, after colonies, is adequate compensation for the Great War.

Further evidence that the world is becoming more bearable is the news that G. B. Shaw is retiring from public life.

Under a Socialistic regime everybody is supposed to work for every- 1 body, but nobody wants to work for anybody.

Another outstanding motoring record is the record number of records that can be broken.

First we have the guaranteed price, then the differential price, and now we just have the differences.

When a person tells you that he is going to lay his cards on the table, the chances are that he has stacked them against you.

Says the Wellington Post: That attractive Thorndon advertisement, "Fresh Passions, Is 6d," is now challenged by Cuba Street, with "Beautiful Nights, 3s lid."

Berlin cable: "The rag. trade is to be Aryanised, depriving thousands of Jews of a livelihood." No, Adolf, that's going to be harder than yid think.

Mr. Semple is going to stop drinking and gambling in Public Works camps. Going to use a strap, or just going to keep them in when school's out, Robert?

The First Lord of the Admiralty says that Britain requires a new fleet. The only way to rule the waves is to have a scrap now and again.

A tall short story:—A long service convict asked the warder to be good enough to put the cell keys down his back as his nose was about to bleed.

As one who believes in collective bargaining our Minister of Finance may be heartened to hear that the Dionnes have swung a new picture contract which will net them £65,000.

It is rather surprising to come across the real meaning of the word "Politician" in my dictionary, and I think it is perfectly true—" Politician" —(n) a man of artifice and cunning.

The reason for the failure at Gallipoli, it is stated, was because howitzers were not used. We were under the impression that it was the Big Guns that let us down.

"Our Cabinet Ministers are controlminded," say a politician who doesn't agree with them. He means that_ the urge to control is minding the Ministers rather than that the Ministers are minding their control. And methinks some wisdom lurks behind his words.

The metaphors our politicians use! Now Mr. Parry says, "Even the printing press must have brakes put on it, too—we are not travelling that road." No, printing presses are not my ideal form of locomotion either, Mr. Parry, and I refuse to travel along any road in one—even the road to prosperity.

From an Auckland daily—a loan company advertising: Advances to Permanent Employees and Ladies.

"Advances to . . . Ladies?" Naughty, naughty! Wouldn't that be a breach of the Act, which prohibits lenders inducing clients to borrow?

It's a hard, hard world. The Italians spent many months getting to Addis Ababa, and now they cannot get out. In spite of all the films they exhibited free, gratis and for nothing, showing all the might of Italy* and in spite of a great and glorious victory, Abyssinian bands ungratefully insist on cutting the Jibouti railway line, and have killed 100 defenders of this line already. Awful, isn't it, just when it is not many months since Marshal Graziani brought the blessings of civilisation to them. In fact, he is still bringing those benefits. He has ordered the ruthless massacring of all captured Abyssinians!