“Why Doesn’T Someone
pp. 69-72 · Read in the full issue
Tell Me These
Things . . .”
When the last of the starch has. finished, And the blue has all faded away, And the last of the kerosene vanished, ‘Tis then that my staff will say..
With an ill-concealed joy, That’s not meant to annoy: “No got. Tm ’e finished today.”
Wi 1 ! they speak at the second last boxful Or brandish the matches on high Or tell me of missing tinned apple Just when I’m making a pie?
As I grope in the dark ’Tis then they remark: “No got. Tm ’e finished today.”
Will they wait till we’re dining a twosome To tell us our cupboard is bare?
Nay, rather their joy is to tell us When twenty-two pepple are there. ‘Tis then they will say In their delicate way: “No got. Tm ’e finished today.”
I know that it’s I should remem ber — And should take all the blame on myself.
I know that I ought to discover Exactly what’s left on the shelf.
But who will not say They’ve not heard in their day: “No got. Tm ’e finished today.”
Noelle Mason.
Bougainville.
The Boxing Day Handicap, at the Apia Turf Club’s Christmas meet ing, was won by Mr. E. Thomsen’s Fortune. Mr. A. M. Macdonald’s King Midas was second. The Gillespie Pony Handicap, for a cup donated by Gillespie Bros, of Sydney, was won by Rosita Lopa, owned by A. J. Fepuleai.
Mr. W. J. Peel, Resident Com missioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, is at present away on long leave and Mr. R, J. Keegan is act ing as Resident Commissioner. Mr.
Keegan probably is now the most widely experienced officer in the service of the Western Pacific High Commission.