THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XXXII, Issue 52, 7 September 1912, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

—Who controls the cadets ? And " Mother," writing, says " I try but can't." —If there was a rush of police volunteers to supply the five extra Johns for Waihi ? —If Mayor Parr isn't rather late in discovering that Australian guns can be grown in New Zealand ? —r-Why racehorses and polo ponies go 1 free on the railways ? Polo is, of course, a people's game that everybody i plays. —What would a red-headed man do if he were arrested on suspicion of being an escaped lunatic ? Ask a policeman. —Why Lake Takapuna is disappearing? Haven't the residents of Takapuna dammed it a great deal since it began receding ? —Has that Cornstalk footballer recovered from the "shock he got when he was told he would have to take the | next boat home ? —If it is true that Dick Singer and ! Magistrate Cutten played quoits last Saturday in order to decide if it was really a legal game ? —If the latest move on the part of the Waihi strikers is to amalgamate with the engine-drivers by becoming engine-driver drivers ? —If a local body can be sued for damages for causing injury to citizens by possessing frightful roads like Wairiki-street, Mount Eden ? —Whether John Baillie's exhibition of British pictures will be better patronised since John made those unkind remarks about our Art Gallery ? —If there won't be an energetic protest from the Sydney Million Club at the proposal to build a new Monte Carlo at Noumea ?—lt would rob Sydney of much revenue. "—Whether-the "Herald" was mailing sarcastic reference to Auckland's slush when it said the Marama "passed through Auckland on Tuesday" ? —If the Dilworth Trustees are annoyed with Sam Dickson because of his allegation that the Trust had endeavoured to blackmail the Remuera Road Board ? —If the exploits of a couple of alleged criminal lunatics won't hasten the Government in providing a special place of detention for persons of the " Ginger " Smith type ? —What the Northcote Borough Councillors think of G. J. Garland, and if it wouldn't take something stronger than " irresponsible, parsimonious and captious" to adequately express it ? —If it isn't likely that Canada's own Trade Commissioner Beddoe has earned the deep gratitude of his country ? He has been getting in some good advertisements for his country and himself of late. —If Mr Orchard will ever be invited to judge competitions in Auckland again ? He said that " the saintly choir boy was out of date." Evidently he wasn't warned that this is the country of the good. —If the Auckland Chamber of Commerce is so keen to have a State School of Forestry in New Zealand, will it be consistent enough to do its best to block the suggested cutting out of the Waipoua Reserve ? If, when the list of appointments to the public service made on the recommendation of M.'s P. was read to the House, true blue Reformers got a shock on finding that W. F. Massey was one of the recommenders ?