THIS TERRIBLE WORLD WE LIVE IN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 282, 23 July 1932, Page 4

THIS TERRIBLE WORLD WE LIVE IN

Being the Brief Impressions oe the man in the street on curkent affairs

In response to many kind inquiries said the Man in the Street, he Had not felt the earthquake, and would friends please accept this, the only intimation. He had already conveyed this information to three dozea friends, four dozen chance-met acquaintances, and the milkman. The barman had volunteered the information that Trrffi' not felt qnythitjg either, but his personal experien« was that they rarely did. ' . * * * Messrs-. -Coates and Stewart Had arrived in Vancouver and departed for Ottawa, which appeared to be a little hard on Ottawa, but otherwise quite a fair beginning. * * * He noticed that concurrently with the arrival of the- New Zealand dele- 1 gation, disparaging statements Had I been made about the Dominidn in I the Canadian press. There was, oi I course, no connection between the I two events/ In any case, both gentle- 1 men had been enthusiastically cheer. ■ ed on arrival at the capital, which I all went' to prove that Britishers in I any part of the globe, could still I grin and bear it. ■ * * * ■ Ottawa advices stated that thel ! delegates were being lavishly entei- B j tained and accommodated in sumptu- B ! ous apartments. He could appreciat; I the f eelings of Messrs. Forbes and I j Holland on receipt of this informa.B ,j tion, but that had been before hehadH i learned that beer in Wellington w B i down to twopence a pint. He under- 1 stood that immediately f ollowing this I j epochal event, Mr. Forbes had cabledB I to Mr. Coates in Canadian, "hangi H I that one off." After all, if one hadthjH ! flesh pots, it was only fair that th;B ! other should have the pint pots. I i * ^ K

i He had been a- little dubions ; whether, in spite- of Lausanne and ithe war loan, we really had turnec Dhe corner, but when he had read { about this tremendous fall in the cost | of high-living, he was quite sure that ; we had not only turned the corner, | but what was even more important, i had not let the policeman see us try. | ing it. It was undoubtedly a ste: i in the right direction, and even iij | subsequent steps were a trifie ua- } steady, it all helped. ( * * * | Immediately upon receipt of the j good news, he had learned of the death of an old friend in Welling- , ton, and had naturally felt himsef compelled to attend the funeral. Ua ; fortunately, however, his wife ha: i heard_about it also, and they has ' nearly had a funeral on their ora ' account. * * * i As an Aueklander, he had neve | been able to understand why W [ lington was the centre of Govera j ment, but with this new developmeii | it rather looked as though the poi [ ticians had known what they to about after all. He understood, hoir ever, that Mr. Forbes had officiaiij I denied that there was any connectiol between this sensational develoj ment and the decision to hold & earlier session of Parliament, h | any case, the majority of the busi | nessmen in Wellington were alread] ' staggering under the influence oi over-draughts. * * He noticed that the Mayor of B tham had expressed surprise at ti fact that -some of the relief schemo were being abused. Personally 1 would have been surprised to fc them anything else. The GovernojB General had also been surprised wkB he had been interrupted hy a Lakfl M.P., but as there'li'a'd been scverfl Labour M.'s P. in the vicinity, tifl was only to be expected. fl * * * I From the general tone of Mr. fl Valera's recent remarks, he unioB stood that the slogan of the Emera-B Isle had been changed by Bri'ifl perfidy, from "Erin Go Bragli" fl "Erin Go Broke." 9 * * It was explained by a press corr«| pondent that Ilerr Adolf Hitler not a demagogue, but a non-smo»9 and a strict abstainer. He ifl never lield Hitler in very higti 'B gard, but he had never thoughti^B as bad as that. 9 * * B A gentleman had recently creai^B something of a sensation in ton by appearing in Willis Stred^B a deshabille of loin cloth and Subsequently he had explained this was merely in the nature mannequin parade showing the ions for relie-f workers for the ing season. Boots, he understo^B would be worn only on more occasions, but loin cloths woula^H de rigeur in chic shades of apd^B haricot and lemon sundae. He stood that stand-me-down fasi'j^B would be largely in vogue this nter, but was in a position to C^B( tradict the rumour that after^Hi next ten per cent. cut, the w: Service would join the Douhho-^B * aK While on the- subject of workers, he noticed that hef"I^B man could be put over the fe^BBC even under the tahle, he must'^B vate a garden. In fact to cessful relief worlcer these man must know the whole vegetable catalogue. He unde^M however, that the garden would be discontinued by Couneil two months before the^Re g'eneral election. * * * J^Khi Finally he had been grieV jjRjg learn that owing to the early cation of the closure at the of the Ottawa Conferenee, s Coates had been nnable to the ground he had intendeddoubtedly Ottawa was a away, but personally he though the more ground Mr. Coates the better everyone would be And talking about eovering 2 reminded him that six feet o lish earth would probably than sufficient for his ne.e arrived home late again this ^