TWO MORSELS OF VERSE
BY GENERAL SIR lAN HAMILTON. "iSr TolecTrp.ph.-.-Bpc-ciril OorfeTOoaileht.} Paimorstori North., May 19, General Sir lan Hamilton, Inspector of the Oversea Forces, delighted tho audience at tho civic -wel&tno with a 'humorous speech. He gave two morsels of verso, one, immortalising the weather at Takapan, was as follows: — "When next New Zealand's sous you muster, Beware, my frifiji-d, of the southerly buster; It turns all Jfao.riland to flood, Save here and there a lump of fijuiJ. It treats the soldiers . anyhow, Especially at Takapau." Tho second poetical selection was dedicated to two ladies, who gave up thejir fnotor-rar to him when ..his own car had broken down near Ta.kapau. It ran: "Oh, woman, on a satiny day Ton go on any sort of way, But when it rains at Takapau, ■ A Ministering aiisel tlimt."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2153, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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137TWO MORSELS OF VERSE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2153, 20 May 1914, Page 8
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