FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 343, 2 May 1928, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By

“THE LOOK-OUT MAN.”

SENTIMENT! Sir George Elliot, chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, declares that, despite what doctors, ministers and other professionals may say to the contrary, business is full of sentiment. “1 hate to take your money/’ said the Hanker with a sign, The while ha wiped the water from his sentimental eye, “I’d sooner far advance you some—the interest is high “And you can pay me double in the future by and by. “It fairly breaks my heart,” he said (and here the banker sobbed), “To think that by the latvycrs and the doctors you are mobbed; Be you a hirsute worker or a lady lightly ‘bobbed,’ By usurious professions you are regularly robbed. “It rends my very being,” gasped the banker through his tears, “To have to make a profit from, the labour of your years; My motor and my bungalow and all the wealth that 7-ears, About me ca7tic Jrovi sentirnent—‘ God bless you all.’” (Loud cheers.) FOR WHOM.’ Referring to the meeting of parishioners of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton, when the reporters were asked If they were willing to have their reports censored, a contemporary says: “The Press representatives were then questioned as to whether they would he prepared to comply with the condition named. They decided that they would. The meeting opened with prayer.” Were the prayers for the reporters or the Censoring Committee? ON 30s A WEEK When a bankrupt assured a meeting of creditors at Wanganui that he and his wife lived on 30s a week over and above the rent, several creditors desired to know how he did it. If the bankrupt gave the secret away, “free, gratis and for nothing,” he knew nothing of business, and no wonder he became bankrupt. Thousands of couples would gladly pay him a guinea fox’ the l-ecipe—cash in advance. ... THE SCOOTERS’ CLUB “As I live in one of the outlying districts, I am, together with my neighbours, fully alive to the important work the Transport Commission is undertaking. Therefore, a meeting of the local ‘Scooters’ ’ League was held on the May Day, when the following resolution was carried: —‘This meeting wishes to help in evei'y way the woi’k of the Transport Commission, and ti-usts that it will consider placing on the mai-ket cheap scooters, both motor and foot. This, we think, would save the labours of car salesmen and bootmakers, since the family slogan would be, ‘One child, one boot.’ ” BRAINWAVE. JEAN WILL DIVE IN Commenting on the Royal Life-Sav-ing Society’s awards at the demonstration given by the Belmont Girls’ Efficiency Club, the oi’ganiser, Mrs. Atkins, told of one girl, aged 13, who had passed all the tests in a satisfactory mannei*. “However, Dr. Pettit and Mr. Coleman, in their wisdom, decided she must wait for 12 months before she could gain an award,” continued Mrs. Atkins. “If someone is drowning off Narrow Neck Beach and Jean is about, I hope she won’t wait a year before going to the rescue.” ... “HOT STUFF ” Now that the Prime Minister, Mr. Sidey and other celebrities have joined the Mustard Club, Tom Heeney is bound to become a member. Any day now we may expect a cable from New York: “Have joined up. Training on mustard. Will be hot stuff for fight with Tunney.—Tom.” According to a New York message (which perhaps should be “taken with a grain of salt,” In place of mustard) Tom is said to have ridiculed Tunney for giving a lectui’e on Shakespeare at the Yale University. Tom is reported to have styled Shakespeare “a dead one.” Let Thomas beware that he is not another Shakespeare after his fight with Tunney. * * • NAHAS PASHA Nalias Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, who wears the maixtle of the late ti’oublesome Zaghlul Pasha, was unanimously elected leader of the Wafd in September of last year. Nabas Pasha first entered Cabinet as Minister of Communications under Zaghlul Pasha in January, 1924, and held office through the vai’ious reconstructions of that year. He accompanied Zaghlul Pasha to Eui’ope in July, 1924. and after returning to Egypt, he went out of office with Zaghlul Pasha, on November 24, as the result of the upheaval following on the assassination of the Sirdar, Majoi’-General Sir Lee Stack, on November 20. At the general election of 1926, however, the Wafd secured an overwhelming majority, and Nahas Pasha was elected one of the vice-presidents of the Chamber of Deputies, Zaghlul Pasha being re-elected president. The Egyptian cat was on a merry caper, but the growl of the bulldog has sent it scurrying back to its corner. If it comes out again the bulldog will have to bite a joint off its tail. SERGEANT THOMPSON Congratulations to the man who keeps the peace in the wide police district known as Ellerslie! Constable Bruce Thompson lias been promoted to the rank of sergeant, and desei’vedly so. For years now he has been in charge at Ellerslie, and he is out and about before you and I are up, and very often long after we have gone to bed. His has been the sane policy of preserving order without unnecessary officiousness, and his tact has smoothed many a situation which might otherwise have developed nastily. The “run ’em in” tactics of “The Bold Gendarme” have no place in the methods of Sergeant Thompson. Firm, but forbearing, he makes an arrest or sei’ves a summons only when duty absolutely demands it; but he gets the happy result of good order, and he is one of the most l’espected men in the force to-day. If there is one thing that is wrong with the Ellerslie police district it is that it is altogether too large and too populous for one officer and an assistant to work without being overworked. There is need for at least one extra constable.