The CRITIC

NZ Truth, Issue 1239, 29 August 1929, Page 6

The CRITIC

A SENTRY'S horse recently fell ** asleep. Thought it was only the horses we backed at the races that did a thing like that. * & * TN Central Otago there is a school with only one pupil. In a class by herself. • v * # . CONSTABLES will shortly don white ** helmets for point duty. Traffic problem is coming to a head. *#* ■ j pOLF links ghost exposed, reads a *** headline. One up on bogey! • • • THE carbon king. It should be easy ■*■ to trace his history. • * * A MEMBER of Parliament has sug- " gested cheaper law. It should prove a fee-nominal success. §** . ■ . l/ING- SOLOMON must have been a ** banker; to-day one wife is enough to keep any fellow broke. CARM cattle broadcast. Herd on the * wireless. * -.» .:.* ■ PREPONDERANCE of male litigants. *■ The one-period sex. " >""> *"--..»'.' TALKIES replace orchestras. Films * that beat the band. * * . <*

WIRELESS SET, as good as new; "' can be seen, reads an advertisement. And, unfortunately heard, too. « # # .'-...'. CIiRUBS, they say, need washing. We must look to our laurels. * * * QNE thing about a milkman humorist! . He sees the cream o£ a joke. * # . * THERE will be larger hats worn this * summer, says a fashion writer. Brimful of interest. * . * . * * . ANCIENT golf links found. One of *"* the missing links. c * * "TIME, gentlemen, please!" — The ab- *■ solute limit. * # # „ PUT and ' take— Auckland footpaths. *. * . * .. HELEN WILLS, the tennis star, is reported to be an artist. She can always draw a crowd. * * * AUCKLAND Winter Shows. That **■ there is no winterless north. * * -.*■-.- TALK of semi-tropical Auckland lias •*• proved a "frost." * « * "pOMMUNISTS. strike a new. note. *-' Their red letter day. #•'.♦ • "C OFT" drinks make it hard for the hotelkeeper.