Mirror of Truth

NZ Truth, Issue 1183, 2 August 1928, Page 6

Mirror of Truth

A Penny's Worth TO think of a show m Palmerston North is to visualize simultaneous-

ly a scene of hustling and bustling stallholdei-s, officials and what-nota rushing hither and thither with. a multitude of questions that would cause any' ordinary man to throw up his 'hands m despair. . • • v■u ■ •■ j W. T. Penny's motto, however, ia| "Nil desperandum." No matter how great the rush or the idiocy of the questions put to him, the imperturbable secretary of the Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral 'Association, with his Van Dyke beard and inseparable pipe, invariably has a quick, concise reply ready 1 * and has yet to be caught napping while on deck

Cheshire, the home of the celebrated cat of that name, iB W.T.s birthplace.

After wandering around New Zealand and South Africa, he finally settled down m the Emerald Isle of the Southern Hemisphere, and seventeen years ago was appointed to the position he fills to this day.

During that time he has. built up around him a wonderful organization tha,t has largely contributed to the Dominion-wide fame and repute of. the Mahawatu Show, the natural ( conse-. quence' of this being the reduction of complaints to a minimum.

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Off To Africa QHOULD, m the near future, your O wandering footsteps take you to

the Christchurch railway station and you see on the platform a heterogeneous collection of assegais, knobkerries, spears and shields, do not think -you have come across the hoard of some curio dealer. x

Rather, if you inspect the labels, you will find them . addressed thus: George Mortlock, passenger to Kenya Colony.

W. T. Penny

has been one of the keenest members of the Old Boys' team — and he can play* some pretty football.

On the social side of sporting life, George has never been found wanting. A popular fellow, at. all times, he has never let his popularity go to his head; And there are very few like that.

They're a 'good bunch of sportsmen m Kenya Colony, and, depend upon It, George will fit m very nicely there.

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HO! The dreamer of dreams; the heavyweight among human dynamites, "who .will seek to "sky" hogsheads and hostelries, and hurl the brass footrails so far from our ken that they will ultimately become but fragments of pleasurable reminiscence. i Charles Todd, major panjandrum of orange wallops and watermelon wights, spokesman and drum-major of the New Zealand Alliance, ;is going to keep us sober. ( , ;. ■ So, if you like tojinger on the smell of the cork, if your ngnt foot is beginning to lose its- brass-rail cunning, the slogan for you is: "Do it now," because Todd says there shall be no .next time when the general elections have passed this year. Generosity dips a willing hand into his personal coffers and the only grievance a great many have against him is that he has not endowed his viewpoint with a similar degree of elasticity; . "Water bright" — whether for washing the drains or sluicing your stomach, Ws the sign he favors round his rostrum table. One thing, it doesn't give you a purple nose. ' ,

George is going to Africa. Incidentally, although there are many little jokes about Zulus at his expense, there will be more than a dozen people sorry to see George go.

-For, not only 'on the football field, but m that sterner arena known „as Life, Mortlpck has shown himself to be one of the best.

As a footballer, he is famous throughout Canterbury. For several years he