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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4657, 4 February 1924, Page 4

“ The tell ine at Home that-1 am the best advertising agent that New Zealand possesses,”' said the Prime Minister at the civic reception tendered to him at Wellington, ‘but 1 think that is only a bit o£ flattery when my health is being proposed. He referred tp the very cordial reception given himself and his party in Canada. The Canadian Government and the Canadian railways had done everything possible for their comfort, ;Mid he had invited those concerned .to pav a return visit to New Zealand (applause). He was glad to say that Canada an d New Zealand were very good neighbours, and he hoped that all the countries of the Empire would always remain very good neighbours. (Applause).

A woman who was too economical to subscribe to the morning paper, says an American paper, sent her little son to borrow the copy taken by her neighbour. In his haste the boy ran over a 20s stand of bees, and in.' ten minutes looked like a warty summer . squash. His cries reached his fa-her, who ran tp his assistance,, and, failing tp notice a barbed-wire' fence, ran into it, breaking it down, cutting a handful of flesh from bis anatomy and ruining a five-dollar pa’.r of pants. The old cow took, advantage of the gap in the fence,, and got into the cornfield and killed herself eating corn. Hearing a racket, the mother ran, upsetting a fburgallon churn of rich cream into a basket of kittens,, drowning the whole of the litter. In her hurry she dropped and broke, past all hope of mending, a five-pound set of false 'teeth. The bay, left alone, crawled: through the spilled cream and into> the parlour, ruining a four-pound' carpet. During tfie excitement the eldest daughter ran away with the hired, man, the dog broke up eleven sitting hens , and the calves got out and chewed the tails of four new shirts. ' All to save £1 19s a year. Moralln the long run we pay for what we try to get for nothing.