A DIARY OF TO-DAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 27, 29 January 1929, Page 4

A DIARY OF TO-DAY.

(By BYSTANDER.) j It was very kind indeed of the; Now Plymouth people to permit some of ' Saturday’s excursionists! to }g,et olt the (train ialt Stratford.. xxx Th'O unfounded story of the man ■being lost on Kgmont on Sunday when ho was only waiting at the place where his companions had! left him, sljtows that after all tho ten*, graph and telephone are not necessary fo r thq spreading of a ram our which just travels without any partcicular facilities being available for its assistance. XXX Things tlfeit might, have been expressed more happily: —A contemrpor. ary in a« cablegram (from London said: “This has been the most cheer, ful clay at the Palace since the King 'became ill.” It reminds you of the remark of the small boy that it was: his happiest day “since mother broke her leg.” ' XXX Reports havo come to hand from, various places such as Auckland and Tauranga, which of cour c o a*® more lioathonish than Stratford toil Tangarakau of gills and women going without stockings. There has Keen a lot of trouble about it, although some people—perhaps men—don’t find! their senses outraged by the sight. However, down in Christchurch the men of one business are ingoing 'to expose their /recks >nd; chests by wearing canoe slfirts, hut Christchurch can go one better than that. One hot day lajtely out (at Sumner, a man was seen sitting on the aide of a. rock in ‘the (altogether’ and it is whispesed thjat a lady was observed somewhere else m the vicinity in a similar state. A complaint was made to the Mayor who said: “It’s a shame and there are dressing sheds.” A writer in the Auckland Star (discussing this says: (“Vc)ry likely' some day humanity will agree that it w the fuss and not the human being that is indecentr—and, such a let of people use binocular which seems to sum it np fauly well.