...Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28180, 19 January 1957, Page 10

...Of Many Things

T TNDERSTATEMENT of the week. From a report sent to “The Press” of a pony club camp in Canterbury: “About 70f children with their mounts are under canvas and the camp presents an animated scene.”

A United States Navy flight surgeon of Swedish descent now in the Antarctic amuses himself and his friends aboard the icebreaker Glacier by playing a “sweet potato.” Antarctic yam session?

ACCIDENT or design? “Pcterborough.” the diarist of the “Daily Telegraph,” recorded two subjects in “London Day By Day” on January 10. The headlines appeared together like this: Sir Anthony’s Resignation. A Vicarage Problem.

TNCIDENTAL intelligence. The office of a business on the outskirts of Christchurch is carefully locked each week-end, the windows are protected by bars, the staff’s tea money is locked in a cash box which is in turn locked in a 15cwt safe. Then, in case al] else fails, a notice is hung on the safe door-handle: “Empty. Please do not damage our safe.”

YOU too may become a member of the British Cabinet if, like six of Mr Macmillan’s team, you went to Eton; like five, to Christ Church, Oxford; and like nine, belong to the Carlton Club. Best ot all, become the twentieth relative of the Marquess of Salisbury in the House of Commons.

rpHERE is some excuse for wild ducks hanging around the Avon. They can’t be expected to read the New Zealand Gazette. But the white domestic duck which has been on the river all this week should have told them the Avon is no longer a wild life sanctuary.

RENDERS are now being called for the supply of dried fruits to Government departments this year. Never mind the dried fruits. Who gets the plums?

npHAT UNESCO report on sport A says that the sporting press in New Zealand is free of sensationalism. Those U.N. people ud in their ivory tower obviously read neither our croquet nor our chess reports.

"QOCIAL News Dead,’’ said a headline in “The Press” yes- I terday morning. Out of consideration for the feelings of our women’s editor, The Walrus hastens to add that it did not refer to any of her reports.

A MERICANS at McMurdo Souna have developed a complaint known as “Big Eye,” and sufferers belong to a special club, in Wellington, of course, there is a complaint known as “Big Mouth.” Sufferers also belong to a club. It meets twice a year, and its proceedings arc broadcast, too.

WHEN a Christchurch store advertised itself on Monday as "the Big Christmas Gift Centre,” some habitual last-minute shoppers probably started to worry. But cheer up, everyone. There are still 236 shopping days to Christmas.

HTHIS week there is not a biscuit A but a ticket for the Transport Department officer who was fined last Friday for failing to give way and having no warrant of fitness for a truck. On Tuesday, he prosecuted a motorist for speeding.

“QTUDY of Effects of Extreme Cold on Man,” said a headline in “The Press” this week. Why don’t they study women? They, wear 'far fewer clothes than we do.

A N Englishwoman, Mrs Elizabeth Bratt, has been going to the pictures every day for the last 27 years. Hoping to see a film which lives up to its publicity, no doubt

A TENNIS clinic will be held m Auckland next week. Will the doctors be using court plaster?

IJERALDS, designed for Nan tional Airways Corporation feeder services, are now flying, according to the Wellington reporter of “The Press.” What s the Airline Pilots’ Association going to do about these winged messengers?

—The Walrus