Shaun’s Patch

Southland Times, Issue 21580, 18 December 1931, Page 8

Shaun’s Patch

A little noußcafca uow und then Is relished by the wisest men. —Hudlbras.

A moa’s egg has been found near Wanganui. I suppose Parliamentary candidates are pleased the discovery was made after the elections. * * * * I am told that a judge here for the A. and P. Show was advised to catch a car marked “Waikiwi,” but allowed three to go by because he was looking for one with “Y” and a bird on it. Despite the absence of wings, this sounds like a flight of fancy. ♦ * * * And Waikiwi? Why not moa or sparrow? * * * * Recently a deputation from the Southland County Council went to the chairman’s home to interview him, and found him at work like a good farmer; but unlike a good chairman he heard the deputation alongside a noisy tractor. D— tractor was what one of the deputation called it, and, perhaps, it did lessen the effect of their speeches. * * * * “No work, no food” is the Soviet’s way of dealing with employees, and the significance of the phrase is revealed when one remembers that one of the mild punishments inflicted by the Soviet is “no employment for three months.” One would think that a fire in a bank would be good for frozen assets. * * * * EDUCATIONAL AIDS. Give a sentence containing the word “canister”: “Though he looked helpless, I asked: “Canister?” * * * •* “Impressions of Successful Business Men?” Try the seats of office chairs. * ♦ «• » Dickery, dickery dock I The mouse ran up the clock! It couldn’t have done If there hadn’t been one Stitched on the side of the sock. * * * * An Egyptian tomb weighing 250 tons is to be removed to Chicago. Gangsters must be taking up the game of faro again. Schemes for dealing with the depression, may be classified as those which urge tightening the belts to fill the stomachs and those which advise tightening the belts by filling the stomachs. * * * * A round trip: Falling ovef a hoop. Publicity can make men great, can make men buy and make them sell, and in the next war it will be necessary to use them to convince the other side they're beaten. * * * » The New Guard’s petition to the Governor of New South Wales to dissolve the N.S.W. Government “only met with formal acknowledgment”; but if Sir Philip Game had to act on the advice of his Ministers, it was rather too much to expect Mr Lang to urge his own extinction. Lt.-Col. Campbell, the leader of the New Guard, told Mr Lang there was writing on the wall, but did he mean to suggest that Mr Lang had been found wanting? The head of the N.S.W. Government may have produced want, but he was wanting before he was found.