THESW COUNCIL MÈTING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 9

THESW COUNCIL MÈTING

WAIKIKAMOOKAIT, Friday. (From Our Correspondent MIKHIXNICK ) SPECIAL meeting of the Waikika- "*■ raookau Borough Council was called in the woolshed this afternoon to consider a suggestion that council meetings in future should be carried out on the excellent lines followed by the Newmarket Borough Council on Thursday. Cr. Gump moved in effect that the scheme should be withheld until everyone had time to get a shot-gun or a knuckle-duster. The Mayor: Oh no, let’s be gentle at first! Cr. Gump: All right, you start. The Mayor (modestly): Oh, I don't like to, it's rude!

Cr. Gump: Go on, no one can hear. The Mayor: All right—you're a liar! Cr. Gump (approvingly) : That’s the style. You’re a crook! The Mayor (warming up): You're a murderer! Cr. Gooble (protesting): Hey! I thought of that firstThe Mayor (throwing a bottle at Cr. Gooble) : You close yer fat head!

A diversion was then caused by one of the councillors at the back starting to strangle the man behind him. The Mayor: What did he do, George? The Aggressor: Hiccoughed in me ear! The Mayor: Well, hurry up—l’ve just thought of something else to call Cr. Gump. The victim was finally strangled and robbed.

The Mayor (resuming): Cr. Gump, you're balmy! Cr. Gump: Who lost the beauty competition? The Mayor (eolouring): Withdraw that! Cr. Gump: I'm sorry—l didn’t think. . . The Mayor (kicking him roguishly in the stomach): You big kid, you! Cr. Gump: You’re not a man! The Mayor: Well, if I'm not a man, what am I? Cr. Gump (slight/ puzzled) : Blessed if I know —what does it say in the Newmarket report? The Mayor: It doesn’t give any answer—(brightening)—I know. I'll ask mother. Cr. Gooble then moved that the meeting be adjourned, as he wanted to secure an option over a section on the proposed bush sawmill track, and, besides, it was a quarter past six.

WILKINS MAKES PIONEER FLIGHT IN THE ANTARCTIC

(Austialian and S'.Z. Press Association) Reed. 10.55 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Sir Hubert Wilkins wirelesses via Port Stanley that the first airplane flight in the Antarctic was made today, Captain Eielson and Sir Hubert Wilkins flying the same plane as was used in their Arctic flight. It has been renamed the Los Angeles. They circled Deception Island and later tested the second machine, the San Francisco. Although the temperature was near freezing-point, the engines worked £ splendidly.