The Passing Show.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20248, 17 July 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)

The Passing Show.

(By “Free Lance.”)

Comment and Criticism.

LOCAL body employees in Hawke’s Bay are claiming for walking time to work. Wonder if the walking time back to their homes includes any standing time before 6 p.m ? If Mr Semple steps on their toes much more it will be a misnomer to call them Justices of the PEACE. If those gypsies move to Abyssinia they will make a big mistake. Who would go there to have their fortune told ? One of the happiest men I know lives in a small flat. He says that it is so small that there is no room for complaints. Crowds are said to have blinked in England recently at a girl wearing a metal bathing-costume. No doubt the beach inspectors tried to cop ’er. There are now four Ministers overseas, and it begins to look as if the Cabinet will have to suspend sittings for want of a quorum. * • • • I cannot see why the cables about the second wife of the Count of Covadonga should persist in stating that she was formerely a model. I’ve heard of model wives. A political writer complains that too many of our M.P.’s are wrapped up in their own ideas. For myself, I was not aware there were so many nudists in the House. * * * * And so 88 per cent, of the people of Egypt are illiterate. It was my luck to strike the other 12 per cent., and what they had not learned about making money could well be forgotten. The Bank Officers’ Guild is stated to have continued confidence in the banking system. When a group of employees states publicly that it does not have continued confidence in its employers, that will be news.

Mr Semple is having his first rest for 20 years in Australia. Well, let’s hope motorists get arrest before then. “Journalists are great guys. They should get lashings of money.”—William Martin, American boxer. Thanks, Bill. The throwing of custard pies, eggs and fruit at German comedians has been forbidden. Groebbels must have been getting nervous. • • • * “The sending of large bodies of German troops to Spain has caused uneasiness to the mothers of Germany,” remarks an English social worker. Wonder if it has caused any uneasiness to the mothers of Spain? This Spanish Prince with such strong marital tendencies is going to spend his honeymoon in a country the location of which has not been announced. Well, I sincerely hope its location is fixed, if nothing else is. • * * • I’m in for some unauthorised expenditure next week. The neighbour’s wife has a new hat, and she is going to wear it to-mor-rOW’ • • • • The young man wanted to know on what grounds the stem father objected to have him as a son-in-law, and the old man said on all the grounds •within fifty miles of the house. I see an award is being sought by th« Auckland Provincial District Local Authority Officers’ Industrial Union of Workers. In future I shall call them the A.P.D.L.A.0.1.U. of W. • • • • Watching the men give the footbridge a coat of aluminium paint reminded me of a tongue-twister. The woman of the house had given the travelling tinker a kettle to mend. Coming out later she asked: “Are you copper-bottoming it my man?” and he replied, “No, I’m aluminiumlng them, mum.” Try to say it quickly.