THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Observer, Volume XXXIV, Issue 23, 14 February 1914, Page 11

THINGS THE OBSERVER WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

How many conferences do we have to the square "month in New Zealand?

Xf tlie " Young Ireland " society will be invited to the Redmond reception ?

Why a working man should not have the best meat lie can get—if he can pay for it ?

—Who said that the imported General Manager was "highly" delighted with the North Auckland railway services ?

Whether the Railway Department intend to provide armchairs at railway crossings for people who are stopping and looking' out for the engine ?

Whether tlie Medical Congress could be expected to agre« over the diagnosis of small-pox ? Dr Pockley a word from you !

If Premier 'Holman, in his medical references to the infliction of " mal de mer " did not harp a little on the high c's ?

Whether it is quite correct to say that the New Zealand cricketers did not learn a great deal in "bowling" during their recent Australian tour?

If the Sawbones' Congress will please tell us why so many New Zealand patients die under anaesthetics, and why tlie B.M.A. is ever silent ?

What steps the Plumbers' Union are taking about Mr Parr's declaration that he had been advised in his youth to "keep the plumber and the doctor out of the house ?"

jf it would very much strain the office gentleman at the publicly purchased V.M.C.A. building to be commonly civil to everyday enquirers? You're not civil servants, you know !

If Mr Parr, -while reducing the price of fish by municipal market will hit the meat monarch where he lives ? He is one of Auckland's most sinister enemies.

—What the R.A. Bandsmen thought when the earth quaked in Wellington ? Possibly thought it was St. Luke's protest' at their desecration of the Sabbath.

jf as the Postmaster General promises, money "will be cheaper ? Does anybody 'know of a place where one can buy a good line of shillings for tenpence apiece ?

—Why men play the dangerous game of "bowls ? A- party has just received many injuries while proceeding to the desperate and unprotected rink.

If Mr A. Harris, who condescends to represent Waitemata in His Majesty's House of Representatives, for the Dominion of New Zealand, is aware that standing new boots in a pan of water is a cure for squeak ?

What " order " the Hon—ah— Heaton er Rhodes wears on his immaculate shirt front ? When one is with peers, you know, one must do as peers do—dash it, don't you know, what ?

—What the " Star" means. " Mrs Redmond, who is an Australian lady, was married when Mr Redmond visited Australia in 1883.' Is it an accusation, or a compliment, or what ?

Whether the cheese sold at the Exhibition and said to contain <£10 worth of coins ever yielded so much as a widow's mite to any purchaser? It was a good cheese but there were n q mites of any sort in out portion !