ONE WAY OF GETTING CASH.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 251, 27 November 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)

ONE WAY OF GETTING CASH.

I lio House of Commorn, will sU dlv mi* t ie lannliar face and figure of .Mi. Henry Chaplin, nhusc retirement from lailianiont has just born aunouueod. Air. Chaplin was full 0 ( good istorjca collected during his forty-six rears in the House, nnd lie tells of a former Chancellor _nf tin- Exchequer who wus at bis wit.s' end to know what next to tax. In dcs|>eratioii he «roto to an inI una to friend asking for Miggestionfi. Mack ciime the reply:—"Tax umbrellas and make the Bishops order the prnver for rain to lie read in all the churches every Sunday for a jear." LOOKED LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE Few soldiers were so loved, or so de*. orated, as General Sir Jnmos Grierson, "ho died the other day. A typical John Hull, of late years his broadening tigura was tho subject of much chaff amongst bis brother officers. To on© 0 t them wflo remarked. "You got broader evory day." ho replied: "Don't you bother about my growing bulk it'h badly ueeded. 1 now have more room to hang my medal*." Jbe Arm,\ knew him as "Whistling Jimmy," and. apropos of his numerous decorations, an old gunner whs oik* heard to say: "He ain't a soldier: bo'a a bluomiu' Christmas tree I"