ABOUT TOWN

Northland Age, Volume XVIII, Issue 38, 15 February 1949, Page 1

ABOUT TOWN

For ever on the job, that’s me. I was sadly disappontcd when I couldn’t give you all the gen last Friday, but what I have for you today is offered with all due reverence to your palate and susceptibilities. ® Spent a couple of days over in Kaikohe last week. Don’t want you people to go all up-stage, but there is no comparison between the towns. I’ll take Kaitaia every time. ® This is not for publication, hut I’ll just tell you. Bill Luxford is taking that flying fish or boat as he terms' it, to Whangarei to compete in the speed-boat races at the weekend, Well, here’s the best of luck to the “Let’s Go.” Bill. But don’t get wet, though I have no doubt on that score when you win, have you. But I’ll bet it won’t be outside. ® There is an adage that says “Never look a gift horse in the mouth.” That’s all very well, but when about to nuv one, it is always as well to look in the same horse’s mouth to find its age, or at least approximate same. But when about to buy a third interest in one, it is always as well to find out if there is a horse at all. Now who is going to buy the third interest in a horse. Do you know? You don’t? Well, I know someone who contemplates doing just this. His name is ® While we’re reading this we might as well take note of the fact that there will b e an Arts and Crafts display at the A. and P. Hall on Friday next. This is being run by the Women’s Institute and will be officially opened at t. 30 p.m. by the Dominion President, Mrs. E. G. Sawyer, who will be accompanied by her sisier from Australia. This show will be well worth your while. Everything will be displayed on the Court system, each Institute branch having its own display and under its own insigna. May see you there. ® And a little more on entertainments. Don’t forget that the Ail Pageant will be on at the aerodrome on Saturday for your entertainment. This will be well worth seeing. According to the exhaustive enquiries I have made, this will be really one out of the box, and a grand show. It’s not everywhere that you can see a parachutist in action, and you’ll see him there. ® On Saturday a lady heard me addressed by my name. She ap peared surprised. Why, I don’t know. And yet on reflection, perhaps I do. She told me that she had never seen me before, and imagined me as being in specs ana stocp-shouldered. I wonder if she really meant that or meant that she didn’t think I’d be bowwindowed. That’s it, mug. Laugh. She said she had often criticised me inter mind only. She thought I was cute. Now I ask you. Me CUTE! ! ! ® Reading a news item that our re- , porter has just put in, it appears that Bob Russell and Tony Erstich should not take tickets in Tatts on the 13th I of any month. It is a sad state of affairs when both get a kick from a cow on that day. But they have one consolation. It might have been an elephant—if they owned an elephant ® If Gerry Wilson ever speaks to ' you of dead trees and hills which he wants to line up to be on the best fishing ground in Doubtless Bay, just stick your tongue *'i > your cheek and agree that he is right. Otherwise, he will run you to Berghan’s Head via Bass

Strait and Sydney Harbour. His knowledge of the good fishing grounds are those of where they once fluked a couple of sardines more by good luck than good judgement. ® And by the way. Don’t forget to keep the night of the 17th March free. It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and the Irish are going to stage a Ball. What a “do” that’ll he. I’m taking me faithful shillelagh that night. ® How these people manage to dance this hot weather has me well and truly beaten, but the fact remains that they do, and to prove this there will he another one next Saturday night, with the new dance band —the Modernaires in action again. Might even look in to see just how you do it. But apparently do it you do. Isn’t that involved ?

And if Gus Gaudin tells yu of nis prowess as a fisherman, believe him. He has a peculiar method all his o>vn. whereby he brings up unheard of things in the shape of “’pigeon fish” from out of the depths. That name, by the way, is all his own coining. But to revert. He hurleys for them. It’s a personal hurley. He says such emission of hurley is good for the liver. Being 1 a chemist, who but he should know ? ® That fellow Brown. Now. There’s a man to go fishing with. He gets a bite, and so help me. I’ll bet the sick in Invercargill Hospital are disturbed by his yell. And when he gets a fish—when he does—the noise is very terrific. I couldn’t repeat, his expletives. They’re tremendous.