WEIGHING A BABY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19269, 10 March 1937, Page 13

WEIGHING A BABY

COMEDIAN AND ANGLER SIR 11. LAUDER’S SCALES Several fishing stories were told in an atmosphere of laughter and good fellowship (hat marked a reception to Sir Harry Lauder, the famous comedian, in Wellington. Mr. It. 11. Nimmo, president of the Wellington Hums Club, said that, like himself, Sir Harry Lauder was an enthusiastic angler. Anglers everywhere were popularly looked upon as people given to exaggeration. Sir Harry, said Mr. Nimmo, was credited during his last visit to Taupe, where a lxiby had been born, with offering the use of his fishing-scales to weigh the baby. To the consternation of the mother, the amazement of Hie ladies of the house, and the admiration of the anglers, it was discovered that this newlv-boru hnby weighed no less than 451 b.

After expressing his thanks for his welcome to Wellington, Sir Harry referred to his fishing in New Zealand, lie said he had been on some wonderful fishing expeditions with Mr. Nimmo. “Fishing is a disease,’’ he continued. “My brother Alex had it had. -Alex would have fished all day in the midden, lie would stand at nr pool all day. I would tell him there were no fish in the 000 1, hut he would say. ‘How do you know?’ I don't know every tiling, but f know a pool when I see it.

“Hut iliere is another of them sitting here,” added Sir Harry, pointing to Mr. Nimmo. “He would fish anywhere where there was an inch and n-half of water. If .1 tell him there are no fish there lie says, ‘You never know when a big one may come up.’ ”