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NZ Truth, Issue 80, 29 December 1906, Page 3

Wonderland at the Palace still continues to attract the thirsty wayfarer, and festive holiday niaker. The cryptogamous plants among the fountains are the ceatre of much admiration, but they are beat -badly, by the I two prize carnations, on the bottle side of the cedar ledge. The genial George is always on deck, what time he isn't packing his famous two quid New Year hampers for the man who wants to spend his New Year at home m the bosom of his family. Those poultry competitions are an invention* of some mythical person with horns and a sardonic grin. This has been mentioned before by "Critic," and he is now pleased to notice that" at the annual meeting of the Christchurch Utility P.C. it was stated that the committee were none too pleased with the competitions at.Lincoln College, but that was not the fault of the officers. It was difficult to say what was. the reason for it. Good news this ; if the hossifers were Belted with eees, or the newspapers that published the result of the competitions were buried m guano, this, deponent would declare a Hair holiday on behalf of a relieved community.