ABOUT TOWN

Northland Age, Volume XVIII, Issue 14, 16 November 1948, Page 1

ABOUT TOWN

It’s a funny thing, but I can’t get away for even a few days without someone getting into a spot of bother. I leave everyone sprouting incipient halos, and what happens. Bingo ! They’re gone with the wind. ® The band had a real do over the weekend, so I am told, and the man that told me is no liar. He told me that a certain member of the band had been lammed with a lyre. 1 have i heard of peopte being donged with a j dium, conked with a cornet, topped | with a trombone, and even clouted I with*a clarionet, but never before has J one been lambasted with a lyre. This : must constitute a record, unless he ; was looped BY a Liar. Or was he j a liar, or was it a lyre ? This is | getting a trifle involved, is it not. But that sticking plaster seems like a spot of “wood chopping” again, don’t you think ? Lyre or liar, it don’t seem right no’ow. ® Out thar in them there sticks at Te Puhi, they had a spot of “do” on Saturday night, all the funds to go to the R.S.A. girl. A bright crowd they were, and though the hall was not large it was well filled. Then after the show a large number of them adjcurned to the home of Stewart Switzer, where they celebrated his birthday. That’s where the first crash came. ® Then came the witching hour of midnight. You know, the time when j Cinderella had to Tom Longboat for 1 home and mother. Slowly the strokes 1 of the old clock chimed away the life ' of the day, only to welcome in the birth of another day. It was then the hour when Audrey Gill was a year i older and a stage nearer to the desired estate when she gets the key of the door. ’Twas her birthday. Many | happies, Audrey, but you certainly started something by staging a Ll.thday at that particular time. ® Then a chap named Archie has been hovering round like a guardian angel, so I am told. I’m not going to tell you his name, but if any of you happen to be named Archie, and you’ve been doing a spot of guardian angel stuff over the weekend, then you’ll know whom I mean. And if you want to hear any more about it, come up an’ see me sometime. ® So on the 15th to this nation was born a future King. The whole nation will rejoice now that the anxious ! period is over. The fact that Their Majesties and the Princess Margaret : will visit us next year as Royal | Grandparents and a Royal Aunty, will i make the world realise just how Dej mocracy can weld a scattered Empire j nation into a strongly welded Unit, ] for a fellow feeling makes us won- | drous kind.