Shaun’s Patch

Southland Times, Issue 25310, 13 June 1935, Page 8

Shaun’s Patch

a little nonsense now and then 1 la relished toy the wisest men. —Hudlb,as.

Taking time to think doesn’t appear to be popular with the new council. Casting Vote: The idea that the Mayor’s opinion is worth twice that of anyone else. • * • • Doctors were poisoned at a banquet in France and the report says that “foul play is suspected.” Avoid the poultry. course. Many a foul play I have seen Upon the stage and on the screen. Mussolini says the Italian troops are eager for fresh victories. It is a pity that the old ones, like Adowa and Caporetto, went bad. Bernard Shaw wants the South African whites to marry blacks in order to darken their skins, but the beauty specialists will provide an easier method. Australia will object to the inference that South Africa has more sunshine. * •< According to a northern writer one of the aspirants for All Black fame scored a try by “sheep pace.” Evidently someone said to him: “Let’s return to our muttons.” EDUCATIONAL AIDS. Give a sentence containing “department”: “I didn’t know the man who played department it to be serious.” ♦ * * * If Sir Alexander Young is really serious in his decision to exterminate the deer why not invite the British Army instead of a few stalkers? Or better still, obtain permission from the League of Nations to declare war on them. * * » » Mussolini says that Italy is not gsing to take any notice of foreign opinion. Evidently he is not wanting a loan just now. Do they bind lame verse in limp leather?

In a business marriage does the husband become a silent partner? Mussolini probably marks his typewritten communications: “Dictated but not Red.” » * • • Last time Sir Stafford Cripps became really firm in declaring what the Socialists would do he spent weeks retracting and explaining. It is noticeable that the only war he objects to is a capitalists’ war. Of course, one of his own design would be a different matter entirely. Londoners make such a fuss about ■ their fogs that sometimes I wonder what they can see in them. * » » • You know it is disgraceful the way these people in the dairying industry cry for help. Here we have the South ■ Island Dairy Association wanting the . Government to supply starters for their : factories. Why don’t they start the , factories themselves, or use a bell or whistle? If a self-starter won’t work there is always some crank about to do

it. * * » * Only labour can add to the value of a thing, says Marx. A green apple ripened, for instance? ♦ « ♦ ♦ NAVAL STRIDES. Talking of League affairs, a Boston paper recently said firmly: It means simply the recognition of the right of the Nazis to put their fleet under the same Council table. Which suggests a variation of Fitzgerald’s punning lines of the Ruba'iyat: Come fill the cup what boats it to repeat ’Tis best to have the havies round our feet— Wars of to-morrow or dead yesterday? Let’s forget the whole wet lot, toute suite.