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Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 35

It is unnecessary to say that the big fight was almost the sole topic of conversation in Gisborne last week, among the aged, who had long ceased to take any interest in such matters, and anion*the youth of the town, who, one woulS think, were far too young to have acquired any knowledge of pugilism (remarks the Poverty Bay Herald). A few hours after the result had been made known in Gisborne one very small boy was seen explaining to an elderly lady the way that Tunney had battered at Heeney’s face, the description tallying very closely to the published accounts. He had acquired everything down to the smallest detail, and revelled in the dissemination of his knowledge to one who had not had an opportunity of receiving the news previously. The good ladv, who hardly knew who was Heeney and who was Tunney, but that one of them was a Gisborne man, appeared to be intensely interested.

“ When the yellow wattle was in bloom ” was the title of a song by a Tasmanian composer named Packer, a pretty song, breathing national sentiment, combine'd with thoughts of spring and love (says the Wellington Evening Post). Probably the spoilers of the wattle trees blooming in a Karaka Bay city reserve never heard of it, but if they had perhaps they would not have refrained from breaking off the scented golden boughs and carrying them away. On Sunday last the wattle trees in the reserve attracted at least three pedestrians, who carried away bunches ol the blooms. Later,' a motoring party did the same, and decorated the car with the blooms. The mute appeal; “ Citizens, protect your own property,” is useless to such spoilers fo parks and gardens. In the public interest some sharper corrective of individual selfishness, is called for. Children are not impeccable in this. respect, but the spoilers of th* wattle at Karaka Bay were adults.