CURRENT COMMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 1 (Supplement)

CURRENT COMMENT

OTHER POINTS OF VIEW

(By

“M.O.S."

More quarters, less quotas. v * * *" 1925 Recalled.

Mr. Coates in an old role: The man who gets things done.

# # * * Skirts, says a fashion designer, are to be shorter. Another form of quota? #*. # *

Taranaki, so the Rugby critics have informed us, turned the tables on Wanganui. The success, it may be remarked, was not a little due to the Taranaki backs not turning tails.

The Wanganui captain found it was not possible to Steere his team to victory.

In view of Taranaki’s big representative programme critics say the team needs more practice in passing and collaring. It would, one supposes, be too much to expect that there might be a little practice in goal-kicking.

A good deal is said by Rugby spectators about wishing to see only good football and a good team whether it loses or wins. M. 0.5., after considerable study, 'has arrived at the. following conclusions:— Good football, according to the barometer of public patronage, is the game played by the team leading in the competition. * The only good team is the one that wins. . # # * *

Wyatt, the English cricket captain, is finding the cares of leadership weighing on him. In the West Indies he was criticised for declaring too soon, and against South Africa he was criticised for declaring too late. He will find it quite refreshing to tour Australia, where O’Reilly and Co. will do all the closing of the innings that is necessary. # * * «

The decision to reduce the cost of lighting at New Plymouth lias been widely welcomed. It is felt that this step will have a power-ful influence in brightening’ many homes. * # * When the referee in the wrestling bout at Auckland between “Lofty” Blomfield and Hardy Kruskamp intervened and threw Kuskamp out of the ring one wonders who was the most annoyed. Blomfield probably. ** # *

An American judge has bitterly attacked foreign nobility for “selling” their titles to rich Americans. No doubt he counts such honours barren. * *. * . *

Small dairy companies in the Waikato and in the King Country have enlisted the aid of the Dairy Board and the Executive Commission in the rationalisation of cream collection. Now if the bigger compaiyes behave like .Good\fellows a solution may be found to the problem. ■ « # ♦ *

What, the Dairy Board wants is a temperate zone agreement instead of ijungle laws of competition.’• * # * *

A newspaper makes a golf writer state that a match popular in America is the four-ball low medal, which is similar to the poor-ball best ball bogey. So they have golfers like that even in America! * # • * #

A New Zealand airman in difficulties chose a wheat field in which to make a forced landing. Evidently he was one of those who know on which side their bread is buttered. ■ * « * >.

The Racing Conference has decided against bookmakers. A case of the totalisator being backed for a win and a place. ‘*What Is a Fireball?” asks a newspaper heading. Most people would get as close to the answer as the flapper who gave I the following recipe: Equal -parts of whisky and brandy, a dash of Cayenne pepper, methylated spirits to taste and a little dynamite; serve hot. • * * On the Rack.

Jones stirred uneasily in his sleep, for he was in the throes of a bad dream. To his restless mind came the vision of a masked figure with prominent teeth that iri'esistibly conveyed the idea of the keys of a piano. “Come,” said the apparition, seizing Jones firmly by the ear, “you must not be so sybaritic as to see Taranaki by train.” With this he whipped roller skates from his pocket and lashed the unfortunate Jones firmly to one set. Then they started off on their nightmare journey, the masked man pausing only to sharpen

his teeth on the railway line. Blurred impressions of people at Nor1 manby signing and unsigning petitions, throngs at Hawera showing unaccountable longings for the return of their vanished school days, and furtive entries into Waitara shops harried Jones as they sped on. Jones was relieved when they ran into Devon Street, f,or there the man in the mask hitched a piece of wire to the overhead line, a tip he had . learned from Cr. Grayling, and the going was easier.

The worst was still to come, though. / After a goat-like ascent of Mt. Egmont, their pace downward became so merry that the wind in their wake "tossed buildings aside like match boxes. “Must have a brake,” hissed the terror as he neatly up-ended Jones and moved on at a slower pace with a drag behind him. Jones’ anguish became greater. It was like being on the rack. The torture became so great that he woke up. The cause of his nightmare was explained. He had inadvertently dozed off in the Stratford railway station waiting room. \ i * # * * The Original Point of View. “Other points of view” are not always the best. “M. 0.5. does not think he can improve on the three true stories told him this week that are given below. Though Patea’s “masked terror' received his full share of publicity one of the rumours spread by apparently intelligent people was not published. Someone’s imagination reached a really high peak ’when it was stated that, after a man-hunt by a considerable force of police, the terror was caught and that his prominent teeth, which were said to give him such a malevolent expression, were extracted!

Knitting enthusiasts will be interested in tfie sad case of a woman who set out to make an article on four needles. Her exasperation when, despite her best efforts, she found herself unable to prevent the stitches growing tighter turned to rage when she could not even get a needle into the stitches. She looked at her lap and there lay the fourth needle, unused for hours.

Finally, there was a schoolboy who in.a general knowledge test had to complete several quotations. His best effort was: Where there’s a will there’s a dead man,