THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XXXII, Issue 23, 17 February 1912, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

—If the Council considers a commission or an advisory conimittee to be the beet means of remedying the acoustics of the Town Hall ?

—If the intention of the Brisbane Strike Committee in attempting to exhaust the coal supplies is to make things warm for themselves ?

—Whether it is not time that picture show speculators cried a halt and gave the early birds a chance to get back a bit of their cash ?

—Whether Carlton Hay isn't one of the proudest, and what sort of a blow out ••the boys" will give him when they come back with the Shield ?

—If it isn't time that Auckland devoted itself to making a few more proficiency requirements for drivers of motor-cars, and enforcing the speed limit ?

—If it is true that tons of good printing have gone to waste through certain theatrical entrepenuers biting off more than they could chew in the way of bookings ahead ?

—If when the Vice-Regal party has wearied of slaughtering trout in the wilds of Waikaremoana it can't be induced to try the Auckland shark fishing ? Sport is plentiful.

—If C. H. Poole isn't going to get State aid for boosting this country who is paying him for those 200 lectures in 100 days at the Illinois Lincoln Chantanqua meetings (what are they ?) ?

—If the double-decker goods shed at the wharf was really'erected with a view to an Auckland Exhibition, considering the use to which Wellington put its similar encumbrance ?

—If it wasn't too bad of the " Star" reporter to enter into all the graphic details—the who, the why, and the wherefor—connected with Teddy Dargaville's motor accident ?

—"Whether the frugal housewives won't go solid in favour of the strike of the inveiglers of fish ? The strikers i threaten to sell their catches themselves, and collect the shop profits.

—Whether the young lady who caused the delay in the return of the " Herald " picnic boat wasn't a trifle embarrassed when the punctual boat-load insisted loudly on her wedding her escort ?

—If there isn't every chance of our world-famed labour legislation being played out ? And whether, according to recent labour conferences, the Arbitration Act isn't already in a state of advanced decomposition ?

—If the Governor is endeavouring to counteract the effect of the Insurance Bill by doing the " guinea pig " act for the 1.0. F. ? He is to be initiated into the Manchester mysteries in a Wellington lodge on the 20th. The Grand High Master in England should take hope.

—Whether a noted Epsom bowler is in training as a rickshaw man ? The unkind person who mislaid the horse from the trap would have repented had he seen the man •of bricks and timber hauling his vehicle to his Mt. Eden home. Was there no horse to hire, or was his purse also abstracted ?