CURRENT COMMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)

CURRENT COMMENT

OTHER POINTS OF VIEW

(By

M.O.S.)

For motorists who still persist, in taking something for their cold just ibefore the collision, it is suggested that the official police test should be the pronunciation of the word carillon.

Defending the reduction of the totalisator tax, the Minister of Finance said in the House that unless some relief were given, the Government would kill the goose that laid the golden egg.

Government Stakes.

1 Golden Egg, by Totalisator Tax out of Pacing Club. * » * ♦

Mr. Gander, however, President of the Society for the Prevention of Cackling, has informed our representative that the Minister is sadly astray in his comparison. With the Government taking all it can get, he says, no goose would be such a foolish creature as to lay a golden egg.

Moreover, exhaustive enquiries prosecuted among poultry farmers indicate that unfortunately in these modern days, geese have gone off the gold standard.

Why the mere mention of geese shopld lead naturally to a scrutiny of the recent doings in Parliament is a matter far too delicate even to be hinted at in this column.' It was disturbing to all thoughtful citizens to learn that recently the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy; was found at the end of one of the many divisions in the House on the Finance Bill to have ended up in the wrong lobby. How he got there, why he got there, and whether it was by accident or design, the Parliamentary reporter did not fully explain. It would seem, however, that there were other members of the Government who wandered from the straight and narrow path during the consideration of the clauses of the Bill in the Committee ’ stage and it is hoped that Mr. Forbes will take the charitable view of the Bishop when he heard of the waywardness of: The sporting young curate of Kew, Who went to a daring revue. When the bishop was told Of this wolf in the fold, He said doubtless he sought a strayed / ewe.

And if it really was a strayed Coolly one that Mr. Stallworthy sought, it merely goes to show that divisions, as one has suspected for quite a long time, are after all, simply processes of separating the sheep from the things that are exterminated on Mount Egmont.

Trying as the issues facing our politicians are, there are other problems on which the humbler among our citizens are seeking the true light of knowledge. .•

Dear Mr.- Editor. Having heard as how editors are literally minded gents, I write to ask you wether you can tell me of the awthur.of a certing qwotashun. Before I proseed ferther, I can give you full in-’ shurence that if you can tell me the awthurs name I will promise to do him no psychical vierlense. I would merely like to view him as you might put it as an objekt of histrionic intrest. Now then, let me proseed. It would •be a work of superirrigation on the part of you humbel servent to detale the horrid condishun of this fair Dominiun. at the present epock. * Suffice it to point out that for many , months the farmer was crying out in & loud and’ w'dful voice about the low pride he received for his primerary projekto;-. There has 'been narsty dister'bances in Auckland and Wellington during which considerabable dammidge was done ‘to innercent shopkeepers. I see that bikkering is still going on in .Christchurch over the tramway mens strike. In Thames it would appere from the papers that a certing seckshun of the communeity is boycu—is boicupp—bbuquett —is, in short, black- ■ bawling some of the ferms wich refused to sine a petishun. We allreddy have this shilling in the £ wages tax and one can truthfully say that in all parts of the. land there is groaning ■ under the burdin of rates and taxis which- has gone up almost to the hite as I might put it of the Eyeful Tower, you being a literally minded gent will follow the illusion. Wot. is considerably worse, the pubs for -some time parst, has been messur- ■ irig out wiskynips in thimbuls stuck on ’ the end of bottels and are still doing it. Now sir. can you or can you not enform the writer oo was the perishun blighter oo ferst called this ere misersba'ble and downtroddin land ♦'GOD’S OWN COUNTRY.” I remane, Yrs. trewly, RiS.VJP. Qurious. . * * In these days when'* there is enough legislation on the Statute Book to reclaim the Auckland harbour, one was surprised to learn that the boycott, as a weapon for intimidating tradesmen, found the Government wanting. Mr.'-'Forbes said there was nothing on the .Statute Book to deal with an organised boycott such as that to which he had recently referred. The Government, at first had thought, on receiving petitions . asking that there should be no further wage reductions, that these were honest expressions of opinion* but later had been shown that signatures had been, obtained as a result of pressure having been brought to bear. Side by side with the development “■ of legislation such as, for instance, the Boycottors’ Relief Act to provide for those who receive the boycott, there should come the development of; The Model Boycottee. If you ask me to go in the park, To cuddle and squeeze in the dark, I refuse on the spot . And'reply to “Why not?” It’s the boycott, Aha! It’s the boycott.' Just offer me one glass of beei, Observe my conspicuous sneer As 1 chuck it down sheer On the floor and give cheer For the boycott, Rahrah! For the boycott. When I walk out one Friday this May . Ignoring my lean wad of pay, You will.quite understand My not soiling my hand. It's the boycott, Maha! It’s the boycott.