GIRL FLIER’S SHORTS

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4499, 2 September 1930, Page 4

GIRL FLIER’S SHORTS

* \ nid how she came to wear THEM. ■Miss Amy .Johnson, who was the uuest of Hull Rotarians, convulsed I lie party recently by relatiny how .she came to wear her famous shorts.

Takinlb as her text a cartoon published in Sydney, representinv her borrowing a leopard skin from the natives while her own clothes were hanging out to dry behind the Jason, Miss Johnson explained that when she decided on shorts she had to borrow them. “.Since then,” she said, “every gentleman who owns a pair lias laid cl'aim to lending them. As a matter of fact, I was sleeping outside a hotel because of the heat in India, and found a pair of shorts and a shirt beside the lied when I woke up. I did not know the donor, but I proceeded to put them on. The dimensions of the waist were enormous. Nevertheless, they Pad to last me to Australia. “On the way back a man boarded the ship, and said, Tm the’man who lent you the shorts’ I replied, ‘Well, you might have left me your best .pair instead of your worst, as my photograph in them has gone round the world.’ By benefactor apologised, and explained that his servanf happened to lie a Scotsman.”

“Practice! Of course, I practice whenever 1 can, hut not with a deadly precision. That is the way fo kill a piano and music and oneself. But to study music is to practice also, when one has once the technique.”—Wilhelm Backhaus, the great pianist, to a Waikato Times representative.

[Customs revenue figures for August at the port of Wellington show an increase of £10,500 when compared with those for the corresponding month of last year. The net lOuS'toms revenue collected last month was £247,834, as against £237,311 for August, 1929. For the eight months of this year the revenue was £2,032,8(1(5, compared with £1,955,224 for the corresponding period of 1929, an increase of £77,(542.