Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 21 August 1939, Unnumbered Page

Hot Shots

se Japan is training bees to carry messages. Guess those messages won’t be the Lord’s Prayer on a grain of rice. A. HUGE stock of old cigarettes was burnt in Christchurch. Modern version of the "Boston Tea-Party"? "VERY TIGHT POSITION: BIG MUTTON SURPLUS", says New Zealand newspaper heading. Sounds like the aftermath of a Sam Weller soiree. [NV Dunedin Rugby premiership final, when Ron Silver, of Union, ranged up to take penalty kick which decided his team’s supremacy over Southern, the vast crowd roared, "Hi-Yo, Silver!" AS the schoolboy said, "It’s not the school I don’t like, it’s the principal of the thing." FROM a crime story in a Christchurch paper: "The alarmed detectives smashed in the door. There was a dead man _ there, sitting quietly at a desk." Well, what did they expect him to he doing? GSILENCH isvt always golden~ sometimes it’s just plain yellow, A MEMBER of Parliament has been complaining about the number of letters and deputations he has been receiving lately. But. how would he like to be in Central America, where they don’t write letters to the Government-they shoot at it. HINGS which might have been worded more happily: "Mr, spoke, of the qualities of the original founders. His father had had nine children, and for them all he had insisted on a_ fully adequate education. He, too, had been a man of great industry."From a Dunedin paper. AJOR-GENERAL MUTO, one of the Japanese delegates at the Anglo-Japanese talks, pointed out that the negotiations were smooth until economic issues arose."-Cabled news item, We're quite prepared to believe that the Japanese side of-the negotiations was pretty smooth. ‘ ‘MR. EDEN IN CAMP,’ said «a newspaper heading last week. And it’s a Government camp this time, JEWS will be strictly separated from the Aryan population in Prague under a police decree which will exclude them from ress taurants, cafes, and public gar dens. They can still be buried im Aryan cemetries, though.