HOTSHOTS

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 3, 24 July 1936, Page 5

HOTSHOTS

EROME BANNIGAN must never be allowed a gun in hig hannigan. N an obituary notice a Dunedin paper referred to the deceased as "accused," (CANTERBURY Education : Board’s amusing quibble over Jack London’s writings reminds us that this frank author is at least not as sexy as Shakespeare! "QPICK AND SPAN" was the ., address on a telegram delivered at 3YA the other day. Ah, Tatt’s,.. they thought ; someone’s been lucky! It was a _ private message for Morison and MacHwan, the popular Scottish artists. "H{2 is not dead, but sleep-eth."-A remark from the chairman about a somnolent member when the Waimakariri River Trust met last week,

AOTSACTS PoE Maori hoodoo on the motor-ship Maui Pomare seems, to die hard. AUCKLAND train-crew escaped with a shaking in in a recent derailment, Lucky it wasn’t a, shake-up. PRESIDING over a certain Wellington suburban meeting of the W.C.T.U. was a Mrs, Brewer! ELLINGTON’S new bishop-designate described the city’s hills as a delight. Hie has yet to meet radio men on Mounts Victoria and Btako. HRISTCHURCH business nan’s bon mot at a conTerence the other wight: "Nearly every new opinion is an old idea that has been forgotten!" JAVERCARGILL takes ifs sport seriously, but not enough to declare a whole holiday Jast Saturday for the Ranfurly Shielf match in Dunedin.

On Writing a Book

( Continued ‘from page 5.) written and contains excellent material the author will be unlucky if he does not see his name in type on a title page. But, taking it all round, one finds it hard to agree that life in a library is altogether secluded and academic, There are many sidelights-manuscripts are only one, and an infrequent one,