OUR AUCKLAND LETTER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 570, 28 September 1920, Page 2

OUR AUCKLAND LETTER.

(By FIREFLY.) r , < u i:.U'« for the -Times.' ; . ..-■ • . ■ : ;.i'ii-. I) of Onehunga , .. ,' i ~!:>! wide, it first attract . . ~. ■ :., i\. mid sixties, v.. t ,•--= ■ ■:. ii-.- n if.tiKl H.M.S. Orphcu . i i.' stranded Oil its shores, a;. .;. m 'tuii'j bodies lined the beaches: .-■.-:..g many ufherals. Later on tin ciio.., of a latiy to fill the mayor. *. .ii' of the borough, which cause utograph-l miters Lo vie with eac LI. or .in <.i<iii' : ::g her signature, a ..He lii'bl N lai!y mayor, under the poo. Id !! g. i,ow the pood people o ji:i.:.ii gua dislike having a "oo insic ■ Loir muiiicipal area. Evidently tl Onehungaites art* not lovers of tfci .ikt ai.ii picturesque. Scif-interest like self-preservatk . ins nowadays to be one of the firs aws (.<!' Nature, or the individual, i ~011 go into a bank it's common t . ." people of both sexes who con. iater than others trying to be a> ; ended to first. At the theatre an post ofliee ycu will find the came sc asr.ness; etiquette is nonest. Try i >oard a tramcar, and you find tl. youth ignores age and imbecility. Si lirst is observable everywhere you g oacked in many instances by tongue of velvet and hearts of stone. ' The harem skirt, the nearest ap ;>i'oach to the trousers of the masc ine "gender, did not reign long .',e Queen City. Its about til. nighty man had a turn with frill pants and a few flowers around hj iiat. "What is sauce for the goose sauce for the gander." The chigno crinoline, Grecian bend, and Roma fall have hud their turn in the dii long ago. • The question now i What will be Damtj Fashion's ner whim? Echo answers query. A horse that was injured to sue an extent that it had to be destroyc in a local suburb was a rather con. ical affair. One excited individual la away for a J.P. to get authority t despatch the animal, and althoug LP's are almost as plentiful here a onions in Pukekohe, "the or, could be found." A little man with large head (suggestive of knowledge said he would shoot the animal, bu he had no firearms. "Thank you fo nothing," mentioned an elderly • lad; spectator, who suggested it shouh remain (in agony) until the polio came. Personage number three wa: positive it was illegal to shoot tin animal after sundown. Eventually it was despatched. Some of the very good people ir this Dominion are anxious for pic lure films to be drastically censored If the scenes depicted offend these would-be moralists, they need not at tend them. As for further censorship! the thing is a farce. Every intelli gent person knows that the law oi the land is the censor since the da\ the British flag was unfurled at Kore rareka Another censor whose eagle eye' is always on the watch is the Press of the Dominion. . No protes: is offered by the many wou!d-b. wiseheads against statuary art in the nude; yet animated pictures showing too much of the human leg mast, ac cording to some people, be abolished. Literary competitions in New Zea land are noted for the small amoum offered in prize money. Gold, whicl has made and unmade kings, anc caused many a call to arms, is tht great factor that will cause dor mant talent to come to the front. Some of the bes literary alent ir, this Dominion is practically unknown. Many contribute to the Home magazines and Australian press, whik many spring and bush poets "walk in where angels fear to tread." Writers in the past agree that the face is the index -of the mine, while the phrenologist clings to the head aa-a means of deciding the various qualification*, of the human race. The palmist claims by the lines of the head tc read your future; then we come to the hearty good shake c»t' the hand. Some of the hands on gra"sp are cold, others limp and disappear as you try to retain them, Then cdmes the solid shake--that magnetic hjand that the leader meets with, that at once portrays the, owner, as a. white man— DBoad-minded, charitable, naturally a humanatarian,from birth of loft? ideals, foremost to help his fellow man, beloved by all. Hands of thk shake ' ll an< modern ideas civilisation the hearty ajood snake \ot the hand is nonest i;«r most places^

YoiT-can take 'off your hats, * Smile sweetSy and bland, -^ And doff nil Ike latest in ca» But five f unto me in thrs^ 1 ™ I *' land,.- \ •' A heaiftv good shake, of thi hanJ Magneli/e attraction may U ave a

- rvay. V And so had an up-to-date As our lives are slowly ebbing' )»way And the glss jets denuded of/sand