... Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28268, 4 May 1957, Page 10

... Of Many Things

T>. W. H. Scott, the All Black full-back, will make his final appearance on the football field at Petone tomorrow in a special match. There is no reason to fear that this will be his final appearance.

HPHE idea of “promotion” to the new Court of Appeal will be hard to avoid, the AttorneyGeneral (Mr J. R. Marshall) has admitted. “But, in fact, the moves concerned will be transfers,” he says. It looks as if the new court will be rather like George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” where all animals were equal but some were more equal than others.

“PLEVATED Roadway Not High Priority,” said a headline this week. Can’t be so very elevated, then.

PEARS that he might have had A to sit at the same table with Mr Nkrumah, the* Prime Minister of Ghana, are believed to have been behind the refusal of Mr Strydom to represent South Africa at the coming Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference. No-one seems to have asked Mr Nkrumah whether he minded sitting at the same table with Mr Strydom.

ASTRONOMERS searching the A night sky for glimpses of the Arend-Roland comet are said to be looking forward eagerly to the much more brilliant Halley’s comet when it reappears later this century. Till then, of course, there are always Bill Haley’s Comets.

“VXTE eat with our eyes,” was the theme of the Army catering conference held in Christchurch this week. Times certainly have changed. When The Walrus was in the Army he frequently preferred to eat with his eyes closed.

A N American pilot who plans A to fly at 4000 miles an hour was described in a report this week as looking more like a banker than a space man. Come to think of it, what does a space man look like —or, for that matter, a banker.

rpHIS week’s guarded forecast prize entpr; “It is now only a question of time before television makes its debut in New Zealand.” The prophet—Mr Theodore Tromp, a visiting expert.

‘QYNTAX Works At Mentone” said a headline this week. It vorks in ordinary speech, too, if people care to use it.

■KTINA Ponomareva, the Russian x discus champion, has been awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour for her distinguished service to Russian athletics. Will she wear it on one of those hats?

/7J.LASS tumblers now on sale in Christchurch are described as 3Joz St. Louis nips. Presumably for drinking the blues away.

WHEN Peter Jones withdrew ’’ from the All Black trials at Palmerston North this week two other North Auckland forwards were named to take his place. They were, of course, the forwards who see no evil and hear no evil.

A special breed of dog is being used in South Africa for police work. According to the “Cape Times” its ancestry combines “the keen scent of bloodhounds, the hardiness of Dobermann, and the fearlessness of Rottweiler.” Can’t the Dobermann now be counted on to make its pinsch?

QO many reports have been received from all over the country about the white heron being sighted that it almost looks as if someone is trying to drag a red heron across the trail.

/OPPOSING the playing of rock ’n’ roll at the society’s socials, a member of the Christchurch Jazz Society claimed that it would “completely change the course of our society.” Yes, and it’s starting to change the course of our society, too.

■REPORTING to the City Council this week on traffic roundabouts the traffic superintendent (Mr G. P. Kellar) said he did not intend to recommend any more roundabouts in the meantime “until those on our plate are more or less finalised.” He gave the council something to bite on there.

VEW Zealand trade officials in Washington are reported to be watching American crayfish bills for their effect on the Dominion’s crayfish industry. They had better watch the tails as well.

QIR John Simpson, controller of the British Stationery Office, wonders why a book on the measurement of small holes (translated from the Russian) issued by the office should sell well. He seems to have forgotten the buyers who want to fit square pegs into round holes.

AN Australian psychologist enA dured 25 hours’ confinement in a soundproof room without hearing, seeing or touching anything so the 8.8. C. television service could conduct a “brainwashing” experiment. The New Zealand Broadcasting Service would be able to do much better than that. It could put the psychologist in a room and let him hear only the voices of Aunt Daisy and Winston McCarthy.

—The Walrus