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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 9

They are Scotch at Invercargill 'where they are not very Irish), and "Me” or "Mac” is to be seen on almost ever, signboard (states a contributor to the Auckland “Suu”). In Invercargill, economy is a fine art, ami is diligently fostered by the municipality. 'This was told the writer for gospel truth: Some repairs being needed to a road adjacent ro a certain cemetery, it was proposed that the works committee of the local council should visit the spot. Consternation was expressed at the announcement that it would cost 15s, for a taxi to convey the members of the committee there. Intense relief was manifest, however, when a councillor stated that the trip could be undertaken for nothing. Jlr , who had died the day before, was to bo bunied on the morrow, ond vehicles were to be provided free of charge for all who wished to attend the funeral. The councillor who conveyed the glad tidings was hailed as a financial genius, and the meeting adjourned in a spirit of the greatest amity ami satisfaction. Next day rhe members of the works committee met to join the funeral party, each wearing the proper expression of grief. Alas! That expression remained fixed for weeks. The '■oiincillor who had conceived the idea of free transport had made a slight mistake, for the deceased was to be interred in another cemetery —in a direction entirely opposite to that abutting on the road v-Li.-h h:ul In bn n’-znoeted’