Shaun’s Patch

Southland Times, Issue 25385, 12 September 1935, Page 6

Shaun’s Patch

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There must be keen disappointment in Abyssinia at the report from Rome that the Italians may have to postpone their advance until October. Italy’s action in raising her bank rate suggests that she wants advances before she advances. Talk of Mussolini joining Hitler reminds me that two soloists cannot always sing a good duet. By the way, it is interesting to learn that Italy denies she is massing for an attack on Abyssinia. The troops being sent to Eritrea and Italian Somaliland are, of course, taken from Italy as a reward for being good boys. The idea of collecting them on the Abyssinian frontiers is to give them a nice long walk back to the coast. * * * *

Sir Arthur Smith Woodward says the missing links will be found in the south-west part of Central Asia. The trouble is they may be given the Go bi. * * * »

I’m more interested in finding links missing from my cuffs.

EDUCATIONAL AIDS. Give a sentence containing “metaphor”: •* “I took her to tea; that’s what I metaphor.” * * * * If Mr Savage entertained the idea that money for the guaranteed prices would be raised by taxation, he at least knew that money was required for it. * * * ♦ Mr Wilkinson’s statement that high exchange is crippling trade, is interesting if set beside the figures which show imports rising. * * * * From the Otago Daily Times: Mr D. I. McDonald: It is not as though Wellington had beaten every team in New Zealand by 30 points or so. Actually its record against South Isla.td teams is nothing startling. It beat a crooked Canterbury team, was lucky to beat Southland, and then just beat Otago by one point. Apart from the fact that Wellington drew with Southland, it does seem unfair to the capital Rugby team to suggest that Canterbury ran a “stoomer.” * * * « When Smirke was told by the Aga Khan that he would ride Bahram in the St. Leger, I wonder if he said: “I should smile.” He should you know. » * * * This Nazi business takes you into peculiar ideas. The Frankische Tageszeitung recently declared: Let us make good with German rhubarb the sins we have committed with the alien lemon. Only the fruits of the German earthclod can create German blood. Through them only are transmitted to the blood, and

If Mr Savage entertained the idea that money for the guaranteed prices would be raised by taxation, he at least knew that money was required for it. * * * ♦ Mr Wilkinson’s statement that high exchange is crippling trade, is interesting if set beside the figures which show imports rising. * * * * From the Otago Daily Times: Mr D. I. McDonald: It is not as though Wellington had beaten every team in New Zealand by 30 points or so. Actually its record against South Isla.td teams is nothing startling. It beat a crooked Canterbury team, was lucky to beat Southland, and then just beat Otago by one point. Apart from the fact that Wellington drew with Southland, it does seem unfair to the capital Rugby team to suggest that Canterbury ran a “stoomer.” * * * « When Smirke was told by the Aga Khan that he would ride Bahram in the St. Leger, I wonder if he said: “I should smile.” He should you know. » * * * This Nazi business takes you into peculiar ideas. The Frankische Tageszeitung recently declared: Let us make good with German rhubarb the sins we have committed with the alien lemon. Only the fruits of the German earthclod can create German blood. Through them only are transmitted to the blood, and thence to the body and the soul, those delicate vibrations which determine the German type. That type is unique the whole world over, because there is but one German soil on the earth. If German soil produces the German soul displayed by the Nazis, the world should be pleased that there is “but one German soil on the earth.” But will the German soul prove equal to the strain of twelve months of patriotic rhubarb ? * * * * SOUTHLAND LIMERICKS. A violently Hitleresque Nazi With a Teutonic hotsy and tazi Said: “Lemons are alien, But rhubarb’s Westphalian And I will eat all you have gazi.” * * * * In Cairo a beauty contest led to a “free fight in which a competitor lost an eye.” Not the usual way for an entry to be scratched.