The Passing Show.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20278, 21 August 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)

The Passing Show.

CABLE ITEM: “Great progress Is being made with the cleaning of Westmister Abbey, which should be ready for reopening in September." And to think that I imagined only the Best People were there during the Coronation! • • • • Perhaps The Land of the Rising Gun is more appropriate. • • • • The maddest man I met last Saturday afternoon had a broken wireless valve. • « • • The heavyweight boxing title of the world is vacant. I am not a candidate. • • • • That British golfer who went and won the championship of Germany had a nerve- • • » • They drunk 50,449,151 gallons of milk in Great Britain In July. What was Scotland's quota? , m m m m This week’s tall story concerns the man who had his radio set tuned In to a musical programme last Saturday afternoon. • • • • Some Hamilton merchants, I understand, are not so Interested In the lowering of the railway as In the lowering of railway freights. • * • • Even the hens are laying better since Mr Nash has been back, while as for my incomparabllis and leedsil, well, you should Just see them now! • • • • Dominion defence preparations are “going full blast," according to Mr Savage. However, I doubt whether even use of these terms will Impress the enemy. . • • • i The correspondent who said that she could not understand these price index figures has it all wrong. They are not meant to be understood, but simply to be spoken. They sound well. • • • • That Chinese place that was bombed. One newspaper spelt It Hankow and another paper called it Nankow. Those living there, however, probably called it Fairkow. ••. * . A correspondent asks why the Dominion’s gold production last year dropped by 700 ounces- Perhaps the demand is less. From all accounts our teeth require less and since the depression started we stopped using gold cups and saucers. • • • • Rumanian Crisis Rebels Wiped Out Gloomy Predictions Trains Collide Call to Arms Collapse of Building Labour Unrest Fine of £3OO Assassinated Fire In Shop This list of headlines comes from the tops of the news pages. The date? Certainly—Friday the 13th.

Comment and Criticism.

(By “Free Lance.")

It Is all very well to praise Mr Nash for all the contacts he made abroad but after all he didn't visit Tristan da Cunha. Could a person 6tage a stay-in strike la his own home, or is that barred under tha new rules? • • • • What do they mean by electric power board loans to consumers? Do they lend us the money to pay the monthly bills? • • • • I am afraid that the Spanish destroyer, the Almirante Antequera. Is now the Almirante Anteqtiated. One of these days the Chinese will conceive the idea of bombing Toklo and Yokohama—in self-defence, of course. Experiments conducted by scientists show that fish shrink when they die. Anglers are Invited to cut this out before they forget It. • • • • “Everyone appreciates the frankness of Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini." states a political writer. But we don't find it disarming. If these frosts will only continue we shall be all right. Our landlady has not yet painted the grate In the sitting-room. When she does that winter Is officially over. e • e • They say that a lot of these metor-eycTee have no certificates of fitness. The one that usually wakens me About midnight has powerful lungs but a very nasty, hacking cough. • • • * My dear aunt, who resides near Wellington. writes to inform me that last Saturday she saw the biggest funeral that she had ever seen. It took hours for the procession of cars to pass along the Hutt Road The flowers that bloom in the Spring tra 1 a Had nothing to do with the case. New Zealand won thirteen to three tra la Which came as a tonic to me. tra la And brought a big smile 1o my fare Yes, it brought a big smile to my face- • • • m I had a talk with a ehap from the north where they recently had the bad floods. He said that the drinking water was affected. • Well," I asked, “what, did you do?" He said that they got the water, put it through a filter, then boiled it and then drank —beer. • • • • Mr Nash said: "I could always raise a laugh in any British audience by assuring them that the try Wales was alleged to have scored In 1905 was not a try at all." No wonder they laughed. No one ever said that the try was not scored. Whet we said was that the try Bob Deans scored for New Zealand was a try.