FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 608, 9 March 1929, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By “THE LOOK-OUT MAN.” ! THE COMPLIMENT Mr. Downes, a recent visitor from j Willoughby, Australia, was so imi pressed with Auckland swimming baths that he has written the City Council asking for information about them. It's a privilege quite unexpected, On top of the trouble we’ve had, To be told —what we’d hardly suspected — That our swimming pools really aren't bad. O. flatterer, sweetly ironical, You tell it remarkably well. But before you completed your chronicle— Did you go for a swim at ParnellT ST. STEVE. SEND-OFF Mr. lc. Mase hopes to hop off from England, on his flight to New Zealand, on St. Patrick’s day. Hibernian friends will doubtless see to it that he is despatched with suitable offerings of Irish confetti. AT BOONOR A private beach, an electric organ, a private cinema theatre, and hot and cold running salt water, as well as fresh, are at his Majesty the King’s disposal at Craigweil House, where he Is convalescing after his by the cables is the rent —the manillness. - Another item not furnished sion is costing the Royal Family 40 guineas u week. THE MOTOR MODE The main colouring of motor-number plates in the coming year will be dark blue. Yet not as blue as motorists themselves will be when the recurring expenditure on registration comes 1 round again. * * * SHARK PERIL The sad sequel to a shark story that aroused great interest when it was reported from a neighbouring seaside resort is keeping/the residents of that vicinity amused just now. Some time after the original scare, another bather | was “bitten.” Next day a party of bathers got to work and pulled the shark out of the mud. It was of the timber variety common on New Zealand beaches. DEATH OF VRV Possibly his defeat at the elections helped to hurry the end of Henare W. Uru, ex-member for Southern Maori, who collapsed and died at Wellington on Thursday: but it was easily sepn during the main session last year that he was a sick man. His giant frame was bent under the burden of an incurable malady. His last speech in the House was made on October 6, when he made an eloquent appeal for justice for Maori tribes whose lands had been confiscated. It was one of the rare occasions when he spoke. But out in the division lobbies he frequently amused his fellow-members.