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Shannon News, 21 September 1926, Page 2

“I was crying out for a pan- of trousers, like all boys do,” said Gipay Rmith. during some reminiscences of his 1 early life at Auckland on Monday evening. “My father stood over „r feet and was 163 stone. He said. J you are a good boy I will give you a pair of mine.’ He cut .them oft at the knees and I went behind the bushes and put them om When I came ou they didn’t know whether I was going or coming. I was the guest of the Prince of Wales a week later—in the same pair of trousers. He didn t know. We camped on his estate, i ■ helped to catch nine rabbits one day • and carried them home inside my pants.” (Roars of laughter). Nine rabbits in one pair of trousers.’ (Renewed, laughter).

Two penny postage stamps appear on a letter received in Auckland from South Africa. They are identical in every respect except that the words, “South Africa. Postage-Revenue,” appearing on one stamp, are printed on the other in Dutch, thus: “Suid Afrika. Posseel-Inkomstc. ” It, is stated that every sheet of South African stamps of the current issue is printed so that every second stamp bears the words in Dutch —a sort of chess-board arrangement of the two languages. This example is a small, but impressive one, of the passionate insistence of the Afrikander on the retention of his language on an equality with English in the South African Dnion.