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Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 35, 10 February 1939, Unnumbered Page

Hot Shots

"ATATE Housing Scheme, Making up Leeway," says a newspaper. J. A. Leeway?’ ‘PITLER says he believes in a long peace, so the British Navy and Air Force estimates will show an increase of £110,000,000 over Jast year. -It’s quite sound logic, really. | THINGS ARE LOOKING UP DEPARTMENT. NEW industry will shortly be established in New Zealand for making gloves out of eel skins. But wilt this mean that the money will slip through our fingers even faster? THERE are still doubts, it seems, "as to the extent of the iron ore ‘deposits at Onekaka. After all the fuss there was in Parliament when the necessary legislation was put through, it is to be hoped the Government won’t be deterred by a little thing like that.

ROFHSSOR R. M. ALGIB, of the Auckland Provincial Freedom Association, has come out as a critic of the National Party. And if the National Party doesn’t mind its step, the professor will start a party of his own. Suggested rallying song for the Freedom Association: "Let's Have A Party." , ° "Tt BELIEVE in a long period of peace," said Adolf Hitler during his Reichstag speech. In the face of that, how could anybody possibly believe that the suggestion to award him the Nobel Peace Prize is just a political prank? MBERICA, says President Roosevelt, will lend aid to the European democracies in every way short of war. But if war does break out in Europe, it’s to be hoped America will again come in about the third year and win it. UT not your trust in riches. Vice versa’s far, far better. "MAN'S beard caught in chain’news item. Must have been @ very elderly cyclist. "Cur the whole four short," roared a@ Christchurch man as he rushed into a barber's shop. "What four?" "The hair, the beard, the chatter, and the radio." GIR ROBERT HODGSON says the. British and French need not fear a victory by General Franco, Henceforth, please refer to Sir Robert ("Ostrich") Hodgson. "F[ANDS OFF EGMONT," said a _ Wellington newspaper headline last week. Who wants it, anyway?