UNLIKELY INTERVIEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 8

UNLIKELY INTERVIEWS

Mr. .Allen Bell —Flushed with, triumph, Mr. Allen Bell paused in the middle of a trenchant article entitled: “Go West, you Country Party,” and smiled benignly upon the interviewer. “Old soldiers never die, they always top the poll,” he intoned, as he confided that he had never lost heart, even in the darkest hours. The people of Kaitaia would never see their little Allen in the soup. “As I was saying to Harry Rushworth this morning,” he said, “a miss is as good as a mile, and I had an ace up my sleeve £,ll the time.” Doctor F. J. Rayner: When approached by an interviewer this morning, Doctor Rayner was about to park his duotone Baby Austin under the stairs of his office. “Come upstairs,” he said genially. Questioned concerning Dixieland Baths and the Parks Committee of the City Council, the author of “Why Moose Leave Home” proved to be in a conciliatory frame of mind. “Oh, the Parks Committee is all right,” he said. “Their park’s worse than their bite, ha, ha, ha! I have left instructions with my executors,” he added, ‘>hat when the Dixieland baths are opened in 1988, the I Parks Committee of the day is to be invited along, and fed on—now, what do you think? What DO you think? — Sawdust! ... You must excuse me now,” he concluded, when the roars of laughter had subsided, “there is a small matter of a new trout stream that I'eq.uires toy attention.”- _____