NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1924, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

“Ramsay -Macdonald was kicked out of Parliament about the same time as I was,” said Mr Semple, at Gisborne,

“and now he’s Prime .Minister of Great Britain. A few months ago they ordered him off a golf links. He’s a step above me, because 1 don’t play golf. They’ll never he able to order me off’ the golf links.”

“Tailors are artists,” said Mr F. R. Cooke, a union assessor, at the Christchurch Conciliation Council, which sat to consider the dispute between the Tailors' Union and the employers. -Mr Cooke said that the tailors’ wages should he higher than they were, because the tailor’s work was the highest of arts, for it had as its aim the beautifying of the supreme being created. “We are the makers of men.” said Mr Cooke.

An Auckland man who advertised his house to let at 30s a week has decided that the psychology of househunters makes an interesting, if not a pleasant study (states the Auckland "Herald”). In response to an advertisement, -10 applicants presented themselves within three hours. Having selected a tenant, he placed a notice cni the door to the efleet that tho house had been lot. Then he went off. On his return ho found tho notice lying on the verandah in four pieces, while the doormat had been removed, no doubt partly to compensate some disappointed caller who had determined that his expenditure of time and tram-fares should not prove an altogether fruitless investment.

It is said to he better Isirn lucky than rich remarks the Wanganui “Chronicle”). <*n Friday evening the borough traffic inspectors found on the Heads Road a brief hag containing a bottle of whisky, a bottle of beer, a

loaf of 111-own bread, and a prayer book. The next day the owner—a well-known disciple of a gentle art—duly turned up. and with expressions of gratitude claimed his lost luggage. Tenement house customs are not always understood by the young people from tho country (reports the “Auckland Star”). One young hopeful on a recent Sunday who was living in one with his parents, who were in the city on holiday on being told it was dinner time went around to all other parts cit the house to tell tho people that dinner was ready. He could licit understand when he was brought to task for doing so. because on llie farm mother always invited all the people on the place to eoifle to dinner when the hour arrived.

An Invercargill resident who has also lived iu the North Island said that a statement appearing in a North Island paper and quoted in the “Southland Times,” to the effect that toheroas wore found only on the West Coast of North Auckland, was incorrect (says the “Southland Times”!. He said tluijt in his opinion there were more toheroas per chain on the Oroti bench than in anv other part ol New Zealand. and during the summer months, lie and his household had enjoyed soup made from this nourishing shell fish on numerous occasions. Not many people in Southland appeared to he aware of the existence of toheroas on the local benches, hut there were enough here to make an industry ot it. He recalled that when the Prince of Wales was here, his favourite dish was toheron soup, and His Royal Highness expressed his regret when he was leaivng the Dominion that he could not take the delicious shellfish with him.