MIXED METAPHORS

New Zealand Tablet, 8 May 1913, Page 62

MIXED METAPHORS

In a northern shire in New South Wales a councillor told his hearers that the grazing of cows in streets was a nuisance. .' We must,' he said, by setting our faces firmly against the practice, stamp it outs.' In eulogising '' a retiring Mayor, one alderman told a council that the 'Mayor has not only devoted to the services of the ratepayers every hour of the day, but all his spare time as well.' One lady recently wrote to a council complaining of the dangers of an open waterhole in her locality, which had such steep sides that a person who fell in would be unable to get out unaided. She wrote: 'lf a child was to get drowned in this pit nothing could be done to save it.'

At a meeting of the Ryde Council, one alderman drew attention to the state of a bridge, which he said had such holes in it that ' if a horse put his foot in the hole it would be all up a tree with him.' ;