... Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28222, 9 March 1957, Page 10

... Of Many Things

'T'HE champion threeryear-old x filly, Passive, may not start at Trentham today. Well, what can you expect with a name like that?

A CHRISTCHURCH firm is adirertising for an assistant to its industrial relations manager who must be not less than sft lOin. Obviously the company wants to make sure he can reach the top of the tree. ♦ rpHEY say that in Gold Coast A rock ’n’ roll circles everybody is now saying, “See you in Ghana, bwana.” * “VOT Uncommon to Swallow Peanuts,” said a headline in “The Press” this week. Quite so. It’s where they go that matters. ♦ 'T'HE world and Olympic hammer throw champion, H. Connolly (United States) has announced that he will marry the Olympic women’s discus champion, Olga Fikotova (Czechoslovakia). Ball and chain, and the platter? ♦ ‘‘ A SKIRMISH between large groups of military trainees and teddy boys occurred in and near Cathedral square last evening,” said a report in “The Press” this week. As the trainees are very young they can be forgiven for misinterpreting Army insistence on square-bashing. THE Admiralty has decided that A all ships in the Royal Navy are to be equipped with a score of cosmetics, not to aid beauty but to save lives. Their Lordships have yet to make a decision about powder monkeys. ¥ TNNE report of the test match against Australia referred to New Zealand’s respectacle second innings score. Two years ago, when New Zealand was dismissed by the M.C.C. for 26 at Auckland, there were enough pairs of spectacles to justify such, comment.

'T'HE management of the sightscreens at Lancaster Park for the test match has been criticised this week, and free passes to those willing to supervise the screens have been suggested. In Bulawayo they have a simpler system. There a score of convicts, under armed guard, roll the pitch, and place the covers and screens On a good day Paparua Prison could probably find enough.

WHAT would Captain Bligh say ’ about this? The Bounty store in Papanui serves customers in Blighs road. Bounty street, Pitcairn crescent, and Christian street. * /AUR grocery correspondent this ” week reports the landing o f a shipment of canned haggis from Scotland. The Walrus has no objection to this, but if the Scots export any more canned bagpipe music he will have to start a campaign for import control. * |7RED. a baby alligator pet of No. 72 Squadron. R.A.F., has made his first flight in an Anson aircraft. Later he will fly in a Meteor jet at low and high levels. If, as planned, he flies at supersonic speed in a Hunter fighter, his friends will be able to say, “See you sooner, alligator,” instead of later. 'T'HE Minister of Finance (Mr J. T. Watts) chose the second to last day on which income tax may be paid without penalty for an address to Christchurch accountants on the preparation of a Budget. He told them the choice must head the list of foolish things a politician does in his time. Did he forget that a Minister of Finance could increase taxation in an election year?

TJRITISH atom scientists have produced a “master slave manipulator” device which makes it theoretically possible to play a piano from half a mile away. Now if the Harwell boys could dream up something which co ild play the bagpipes from 10 miles away, there might be joy amongst the Sassenachs.

VVASHING dishes for Wolf ’ ’ Clubs was suggested as a possible job in a report of the Boy Scouts’ Association’s annual “Bob a Job” week. Presumably Mowgli would make the payments. * TNCIDENTAL intelligence. A A Christchurch restaurant’s menu offers porterhorse steak. From the butcher’s cart, we presume. * ANSWER to correspondent: No. the heading, “Israel Accepts,” in the cable news this week had nothing to do with the Tel Aviv races.

—The Walrus