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Road Efficiency About 1,110,000 drivers may be banned from* the roads because of the new driving tests which are to start hi the autumn. They will he holders of provisional licences granted during the war. More than 3,000,000 holders of these licences are to he tested because of a decision to tighten up on careless and unskilled driving in preparation for “peacetime” motoring. In the year ended, March, 1939, the official examiners failed 37.5 per cent, of the total taking the test. —“Evening Standard,” London.
Overseas Trifles
We dull our understandings with trifles, fill the heavenly spaces with phantoms, waste the heavenly time with hurry. When I trouble myself over a trifle, even a trifle confessed the loss of some little article, say, spurring my memory, and hunting the house, not from immediate need, but from dislike of loss; when a book has been borrowed of me and not returned, and I have forgotten the borrower, and fret over the missing volume ... is it not time I lost a few things when I care for them so unreasonably? —George Macdonald.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 247, 31 July 1946, Page 4
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182RANDOM OPINIONS Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 247, 31 July 1946, Page 4
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