... Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28370, 31 August 1957, Page 12

... Of Many Things

tfATHER'S Day. Pbooeyl Whatl 1 about Walrus’s Day?

U'HE Joint Intelligence Bureau * is a sub-division of the Prime Minister's office. Parliament was told this week. It's encouraging to know not only that there is some intelligence around the joint but also that there is a special sub-division for jt..

1J ERE S Tbe Idea? Scaffold? Whisky, Brandy. Gin ' Sherries.”—advertised thia week. 1 Some hangmen The Walrus knows have been using these weapons a long time.

A visiting Australian specialist said this week that it was a national tragedy to see so many young people in Australia and New Zealand wearing dentures. True, but they look much worse without them.

fpHE All Black half-back, A. R. Reid, told a luncheon gathering of fathers and children in Auckland this week that he could not imagine a young All Black ever being called a juvenile delinquent. Some All Blacks were called worse than that—in Afrikaans when tbe Springboks were here.

4’ARDENING colleagues of The Walrus were much relieved to leai-o this week that gibberellic acid, a new plant stimulant which has produced cabbages 12ft high, is not being used in New Zealand to produce outsize vegetables. They had visions of having to hire bulldozers to earth up their potatoes.

I bOLIB’ clothing is now exempt z from sales tax. Talking dolls are reported to be gratefullly squeaking, “Thank you, Mr Watts,” instead of “Ma, Ma.”

AIR W. W. FREER. M.P., has suggested it’s time to overhaul the whole structure of the Cabinet. What about polishing it as well?

lUST a reminder for Mr Eric Holland. Mr Alan Wills, and anyone else interested. Applications for nomination as the National Party candidate for St. Albans close on Fridav, September 13. ; ■

r PHE solicitude of English 1 cricket writers who are urging a Saturday start for the New Zealand team's test matches next year as, an insurance against the loss of the Saturday ’ gate'' j 8 touching, though uncomplimentary. However, no-one has yet proposed that play on the openday should begin at 2 p.m.

r pWO massive 9.2 in guns in Wel- * lington are to be scrapped. Curious how the news repeat* itself. Quite a lot of other big guns in Wellington always get fearful of tbe same fate around election time.

.MR F. G. YOUNG, secretary of . tbe New Zealand Hotel Workers’ Federation. has announced the formation of a New Zealand academy of chefs. The first, thing they will be taught, presumably, is that too many chefs spoil tbe potage.

fpHE Chief of the General Staff 1 (Major General C. E. Weir> says we must be careful about the ! ‘' push -button ’ ’ atmosphere that | has grown up about the role of Jand forces because push-button* are mostly connected with nuclear (weapons. What he really means, lof course, is that we must he I careful not Io push the wrong I button.

“1 DISTURBANCE On The Sun.” said a headline in “The Press’’ the other day. Apparently there is no escape even there from this troubled world.

'CHE use of a little elbow greaM L by dairy farmers would improve milking shed hygiene, according to Mr J. H. Ferguson, chairman of the Federated Farmers. Auckland, dairy section. And probably make the floor slippery for, the cowa.

Of Scotland For Sale,” said a headline this week. The Scottish Nationalist* will have to do something about that.

L'OR a wonderful moment lasi week a Rugby enthusiast of Scottish descent thought Jhat the authorities had at last decided to be generous. The charge for entry to the covered stands for today's match against Fiji wa* advertised as os. Alas: next day there was a modest 1 in front of the 0.

* A FTER three wins in four start* in the North Island. Uppercut seems to be carrying a punch as well as a jockey.

pROPOSALS have been made for * half nip of whisk*' and other spirits to cost 6d as against Is for the full nip. Will they provide a magnifying glass for the elderly and those of failing sight?

ANSWER to correspondent: No, the liquid fuel used in the Russian intercontinental ballistic 'rocket Is not vodka.