THE "RED HERRING."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10518, 5 January 1912, Page 4

THE "RED HERRING."

Our evening contemporary appears to have a. bee in its (bonnet. It accuses us'of drawing a red herring across the (seelit in regard to am absurd proposal to lii'ovide wot-kors' homes in Mastortoii. We have no particular acquaintance with thiings that are "fishy," and must therefore bow to the superior knowledge of our contemporary on this point. We repeat, however, .that there is ahsolutellv mo necessity at the present time for workers' dwellings in Mastcrton. The Act has, been brought into operation in no township in, New Zealand with a population of five thousand, and is not likely to be. Any- house agent, or property-owner, or Building Society dm Ma&tertou- will treat the suggesrhion of our, contemporary as utterly, foolish. .: '-;."-.fVJ_ l: ; U •

A TIGER STORY. The cable tellis us, with circumstan'tiai exactitude, that His Majesty the King shot twenty-four tigers during the Nepali (hunt, and that "on one occasion* he shot a tiger and a bear with right and left barrels." Now, auoibody -objects to the wholesale destructkn of tigers and bears, although the latter creatures are more readily discovered in London than in India. But why should His Majesty have employed the right and left barrels to-shoot..£he tiger and the bear? Why shioiuld he have usea the barrels at all? The ckrb end of the weapon would surely have been just as siarviceable! Dirt history has to be made somehow, and the cable service must ! be made to pay!