LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 October 1930, Page 4

LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

A Faux Pas. He: I spotted you bathing this morning with your rubber hippopotamus. She: Pardon me, but that was my mother. *** , * Protected. • • • A motorist Avas held up* by a traffic policeman. "What’s your name?” demanded the cop. "Abraham O’Brien Goldberg,” replied the motorist. ".What’s the O’Brien for?” asked the officer. "Protection,” promptly came the reply. * * * * Justice Tempered with Mercy.

Sir Robert Wallace told the jury at the London Sessions that he was sure they must have wondered when he bound some of the prisoners over whether that was the right way to deal with them. He added: "Our experience has been that of all the people who have been bound over and given a chance, more than 90 per cent never return to crime. ’ ’ • * * * Prison for a Kiss. For stealing a kiss from a pretty actress who had applied to him to be placed on the unemployment benefit list, on official of the. Munich Labour Exchange has lost his situation and has been sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. The actress left her identity papers on the official’s desk, and he went to her home and told her he would give them back only in return for a The actress complied, but afterwards, informed the police. • ■ The court declared that the official made an abusive use of his powers, and sentenced him to the minimum penalty for his offence. « # * * ’Clearing Up Rabbits. Systematic poisoning and the operations of an army of trappers have decimated the rabbits in the South Island. In very few places are they now a real menace to landholders. The experience of one run-holder, Mr E. P. H. Burbury, owner of the Glen Wye Station, is, says the "Christchurch Press,” sufficient to indicate how the pest may be effectively checked by energetic action. . Four years ago the winter contribution of Glen Wye to the rabbitskin markets was no fewer than 75,000; this year only one trapper has been working on the station, and his total tally has been fewer than 5000. * * * *

Air -Transport. Air-Marshal Sir iSefton Braneker, one of the victims of the air disaster, in a speech on air transport, reported in “The Scotsman,” said: —“Air transport at the present time is coming more and more to be a commercial proposition. In regard to the question economy, aerial transport is, to a large extent, subsidised. In France the air transport companies earn about oO per cent real revenue from their traffic, and the remaining 70 per cent is Government subsidies. In Germany, matters are rather similar. In Great Britain we stand about ‘fifty-fifty,’ and next year perhaps our companies will be earning 60 per cent revenue and 40 per cent subsidised. At the present time in Britain we are speedily moving towards the point when we will not require a Government subsidy. The position is that we in Great Britain have no incentive to fly, because of the fact that we are living on an island. It is entiiely different with the Continental people. Germany is easily leading the way in Europe, but America is doing more flying than tho whole of that continent put together. If British people have little incentive from an insular point of view, they have a great incentive from an Empire standpoint. They have first of all to get the assistance of the colonies and dominions, for rapid Empire communication is going to be an invaluable factor. The aircraft industry is going to be as important to Britain in the future as shipping has been in the past.”