FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By “THE LOOK-OUT MAN.’’

ALL IN THE JOB “This man has been so often before the court, your ‘Worship must be tired of seeing him.” —Sub-Inspector McCarthy, at the court on Saturday. Mr. F. K. Hunt: “No, it doesn’t worry me.” The old familiar faces, how they call Many a fleeting echo from the past. To your suggestion: Does it ever pall, Giving these steady customers a blast? The answer is, one’s interest never flags. Indeed. I'd almost say—could I be pardoned — Life would be dull atid drear without these lags And criminals who’re hardened. Perchance the fellow who from yonder dock Scoivls at the court for, say, the thirteenth time, Feels that the fates have dealt a dirty knock. And wearies of this aftermath of crime. Parting with half a quid may mean a x wrench, Or txco months' hard cause even greater worry. But giving jolts like that is what the Bench Is paid for— —l should- worry! T. TOHEROA. STRANGE BUT TRUE Note of surprise in heading to Saturday’s yachting: —“Wet and windless.” It is certainly rather extraordinary for it to be windless. LABELLED How we should miss those snappy little labels for suitings if they were worded otherwise: “Natty,” “New,” “Distinctive,” “Smart,” “Gentlemanly,” “Nobby.” They are so brief and to the point. It only remains for someone to remark, '"How gentlemanly your plus-fours look to-day,” or to a man with enlarged rheumatic joints, “What a nobby appearance you have in that new suit!” TO FAR PERU In a letter to The Sun's Dawn Lady, young Terangipaia- Poata of Te Aroha produces an argument that should interest ethnologists: “I was reading Mr. George Graham’s letter in The Sun, in reply to Tawhitiroa,’ about the way the Maoris came to New Zealand. My father and I were interested, because my father said that when he was in Peru some time ago he heard the Peruvian natives talking in a tongue very like the Maori tongue. So much like it that he could understand some things they were saying.” If that statement is substantiated by other observations it should have a bearing on the origin of the Maori. THE INCINERATOR Every housewife knows what it is like to be blissfully shopping in Queen Street and then suddenly recollect that she has left the meat on. A dash for the first Onehunga or Ponsonby car can solve such problem? with a minimum of loss, but consider the sad case of a lady who locked up her flat and went to Karekare for the week-end. Far from friend or phone that could be of service, she recollected of a sudden that she had left a batch of petticoats and other trifles to dry before a slow flame in the gas oven. Nothing could he done, so she resigned herself to her fate, and duly returned home on the Monday to And the garments “done” to a turn.

ALL LIT VP Such joys as there are in convivial drinking to the point of intoxication would not be expected to apply to a one-legged man. But an unfortunate person crippled in this manner answered the charge at the Court on Saturday. How a gait already seriously defective would stand the effects of ale, vodka or other tipple can be imagined if there is anything at all in the principles of ratio. But they get along somehow. A crippled exsoldier in a southern hospital celebrated a big win at the local race meeting and had the traffic in the main corridor at sixes and sevens while he ran speed tests in his bath chair. Even the blind have been known to imbibe over-freely on occasions. It’s all one when one is “blind.” TRADITION UPSET A hoary tradition in the House of Commons has gone the way of so many ancient traditions, this being the custom demanding that members wear headgear of some kind when speaking to a point of order after the division bells have rung. This applies also to the New Zealand Parliament, wherein amusement is occasioned when some earnest soul rises with a handkerchief or a dispatch box, or even a wastepaper basket, surmounting his cranium. But at Westminster it was recently defied by the woman Labourite, Miss Susan Lawrence, whose protest the Speaker, after due deliberation, upheld, on the grounds that no women were members when the rule was made.