NOVEL FIGHT.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 267, 20 November 1901, Page 2

NOVEL FIGHT.

Unionism has taken upon itself a remarkable fight in Chicago. The Servant Girls’ Union has decreed that golf must go, and it is probable that the mistresses will be found ranked on the side of the servants, for there are good reasons for the crusade. It appears that the businessman, instead of going straight home from the city now betakes himself to a golfing ground, whence he " reappears, scattering umd,

bun's, thistles, clubs, and Scotch dialect ! ail over the house, just in tittle for nil \ eight o’clock dinner, which of course j spoils the evening for the servauts and ! also for the mistress.” The union has set j itself to tight the golf ogre. So far the 1 fascinating game has triumphed, just as , howling has triumphed in Gisborne 1 against all domestic objections. A man j will submit to much inconvenience rather 1 than give up his beloved game, but he does not like going hungry, and it appears that golf does make one hungry, though a doubt has been raised as to whether the same would apply to the gentle game of howls. However that may he, in Chicago golf has found a foe worthy of its prowess, and the sight of healthy men w ith golf appetites going home to find the larder empty and the house deserted will give some idea of what a tight of this sort will lead to. An American describes the eon* test in this graphic style, “Theimpact be--1 tween the golf craze and the servant-girl | problem will resemble the celebrated colj lision of the irresistible force and the imi movable body.” The sympathy of all who i do not golf is with the servant girl.

A “ TAG.” Theue is a thickness in the brain-pan of the Palmerston North Borough Council, which has decided to protest against the ” tag ” affixed to the Borough balance-sheet by the Auditor-General on account of the sum of .£-10 expended in connection with Royal celebrations. It is pointed out that the Act says money may be expended for such purposes out of the credit of general account, not out of creditbalance of account, as stated by the Auditor-General. Therefore, until a Council is absolutely bankrupt, with not a stick of furniture that it can pawn to the money-lender, it could raise a credit to the j general account. It might even have j such a credit by allowing the workmen to j remain out of their wages for a time—in I fact there are- many ways by which the desired credit could be provided. There are ways, apart from these tricks, by which the Council might have got out of the difficulty, but there can be no doubt that the Auditor-General is right, from his point of view, and no amount of fiuesso can get over that fact.