BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 30 March 1931, Page 8

BY THE WAY.

SOME COLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS. (By One of the Boys.) She was only a paperhanger's daughter, but her jewels were not paste. " Heavy cut in prices of timber.”— } Board coming down at last. Bank chairman has resigned.—Lost interest, perhaps. Find of alluvial gold at Mount Isa. Prizes for more art unions. It is said that New Zealand cheese does not sell in England, as it has a bad < name. Why not call it Russian cheese ? There is no connection between the collection of city rates and the screening of a picture called " Plunder ♦♦ ?*♦ A foreign tramway company has prohibited its employees from committing suicide when wearing uniform. Employees leaving their homes in mufti are regarded with suspicion. An agricultural instructor for the Canterbury Education Board was paying his usual visit to the garden plots of a school under his jurisdiction, and was questioning the boys upon the use, etc., of green manuring. Noticing a variety of crops being used for this purpose (mustard among them), he inquired of the class the reason for mustard being used in preference to oats, lupins, etc. He received many and varied answers, but was quite unprepared for the last, which was, “ Please, sir, the mustard puts more ginger into the ground.”