CURRENT COMMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1935, Page 13 (Supplement)

CURRENT COMMENT

OTHER POINTS OF VIEW

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“M.O.S.

Mis-deal imU.S.A. * * * * And the Supreme Court has revoked. • # # # # . The popular explanation in the United States of the short tail on the N.R.A. eagle in the national emblem is that it soared and soared till it sawed its . tail off. Poor bird, now the Supreme Court has clipped its wings. . # ■” # * • ' Stranger to a Taranaki town: “Is there a freezing works here?” “No, that’s just the rubbish dump.” « * ■ These queer foreigners. France’s Par- • liament had a debate the,other day in which there was only one speaker. In New Zealand we just can’t understand that. # # # # Some thousands of rounds of ammunition were stolen from a Hawke’s Bay shop the other day. M.O.S. can deny the rumour that the police are watching the roads to Taranaki on the theory that the 'thief had in mind a little goat shooting. « * * * Highlights and ’ impressions in the week’s news:—The League of Nations .pleased, but Mussolini satisfied,, the Wanganui hockey team doing better than was anticipated, but India scoring 18 goals, France having £1,000,000,000 in gold but a currency crisis as well, Hawera having fresh hopes of an aerodrome but coolness with Mr. Burgess and the South Taranaki executive of the Farmers’ Union about to sue the Meat Board. .. '. * * * ' The efforts of the Egmont National Park Board, supported by the Farmers’ Union and local bodies, to preserve the bush on Egmont, the province’s heritage, a national birthright, etc, are very commendable. However something will have to be done soon or the board will be forestalled because New Plymouth is going to have its own brand new forest. The reason is not contrition for the full design on Pukekura’s trees, but just an admission that the borough is beginning , to see the light. . «»’ * * A little exercise in deduction: The Daily Telegraph says that Sir John Simon will relinquish the post of Foreign Secretary, and that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will take over Mr. Anthony Eden’s office of Lord Privy Seal. Mr. Eden, perhaps, will retire to the country to keep bees. . • # ’ ■# ■ ♦ New Zealanders may be puzzled’at why the gold the French are making such a fuss, about should be likened to cheese when they take it away in newspaper parcels lest it should escape from the bank. The reason for this bewilderment, it may be ■ said, is that New .Zealanders know, not gorgonzola. **# . *

Which reminds one of the old chestnut about the man who went into a grocer’s shop to buy. some cheese. None that he v tried was sufficiently tasty, so the grocer • in desperation called to his assistant: * ■ “Unchain No. 23 and bring him in.” ‘ # # ♦ *

The New Plymouth borough is able proudly to announce that its trams are gaming in popularity. It must not be believed that this is due to the Luna Park nature-of the roadways.

The Italian Press, in. its anxiety l that the poor Abyssinians should be given the benefits of civilisation, resents Britain’s attitude in the matter, and. raises .what it considers is a parallel in South Africa, giving instances of the alleged Kultur of the English. One might reasonably reply by referring to the sufferings of the early Britons who had to give up woad for woe when the Tenth Legion took a band.

M.O.S. cannot understand, and is probably not alone in that, A where all the Taranaki hulls go to in the summertime. Every year an entirely new lot is brought out and sold, always for guineas, a device to make the purchaser ’ pay more than he thinks he is. It was different during the war, of course, when the market could be understood. * -. # * . • 1

' The bulls of Taranaki must look to their .laurels or the cats of the province will be stealing their thunder. After all, any animal that was adequately coveted might be sold for 320 guineas, but two New Plymouth cats haye gained wider distinction. One has discovered that a wireless set is a warm and comfy bed -that suits his aesthetic musical soul, while another introduced a musical family by a brief prelude in the grand manner on the keys of a piano. These feats might be a little difficult of accomplishment for an aristocratic Jersey. Suggestions are that the conferences of the Farmers’ Union might be opened by a bull, that. Taranaki take the field at Wanganui on Monday headed by a good specimen (care being taken to see 'that he was not dehorned lest he should be mistaken for one of the forwards), and that the Taranaki Agricultural Society (taking a leaf out of the Stratford Mountain Club’s book) make a, fastidious Ayrshire associate judge in 'the ensilage classes at. the winter show.

The great business of the year has really begun and soon we shall know who is going to have THE BIG TRIP. Now that the selection is so near one feels moved to proffer a little advice to would-be All Blacks. In the first place when they get to England they must not try to win matches—it just isn’t done. Then they mustn’t hook the ball too often from the scrum, or Mr. Baxter will think that there is a deliberate cheat about, and insist on having four, five, six or even eight men in the front row. Having mastered these little points, which will avoid unpopularity, the players should strive to be popular. Though handicapped by the rules they might introduce a few American touches. As a

sporting writer has said with remarkable accuracy four points are four points any ' day, so Gudgeon could refuse, to pass to his five-eighth, and throw .the ball to Collins, who could pot a goal. Line-outs would be lent variety if Clarke toqk the bali and threw it to Edwards bn the other wing. Possibly the selectors may be foolish enough to leave all these men behind, but if they try a few of these lighthearted pranks, which would appeal so much in the land of Spong and Aavoold, the selectors may acquire wisdom. Taranaki has been known long enough for good football- —let’s be bright.