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Otago Witness, Issue 3854, 24 January 1928, Page 38

The firemen on a tramp steamer are usually credited with being past-masters in the art of luridly expressed English (says the Bluff correspondent of the Southland News). A rival, however, was discovered the other day in the nubile bar of one of the local hotels. Relating a' story to some cronies, he so liberallv emhelbshed his vain with expletives not to be found in Webster, that the barman had to admonish him with' he remark: “ I say. old man, go here are some firemen round the corner listening with their mouths wide open.” Rain-water tanks arc actually being installed by some Auckland residents to conserve the waste from, house roofs (reports the Herald). The prime motive in those cases seems to be. not to heln the City Council out of a tight corner, but to preserve cherished flower gardens. The tanks will provide an emergency supply for parched plants when, as at present, watering, is prohibited. D is also olaitned that rain-water makes ideal drinking water, whereas the filtered menicinal product is somewhat insipid as a beverage.