BY THE WAY

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 77, 31 March 1931, Page 7

BY THE WAY

SOME COLLECTIONS and Reflections. (By One of the Boys.) Houses can be built cheaply.—ln many cases they are only cheaply built. A man had a failing for breaking windows. —One theory is that he is a Scotsman, and wanted to see glass go (Glasgow). A Russian Grand Duchess says she realises that the clock cannot be turned back again.—Does this mean an end of the Summertime Act? Oscar Garden was fined for carrying passengers in a 'plane on Sunday.—Evidently considered by the law as a clear case of “ flying in the face of Providence ”. A.H. writes:— He’d trodden the sands of old Egypt, With awe at the Sphinx he had gazed. He’d travelled the Great Wall of China, And looked at St Peter’s amazed. But greatest of all the world’s wonders He’d found in New Zealand at last; The Pink and White Terraces awed him, Their vividness held him aghast. His friends back in London would doubt him, A photo as proof they would see, So taking his camera he snapped them— The Regent and the A.M.P.