Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28524, 1 March 1958, Page 12

Of Many Things

VEW ZEALAND cricketers who have toured England will have to remind the 1958 team that a swarm of runs in May is worth a load of hay (to the New Zealand Cricket Council).

rpHE Russians have done it again. By the failure of their Antarctic expedition to get there they have been the. first to prove that the Pole of Inaccessibility is indeed just that

ANSWER to honourable correspondent No, Rugby broadcast from Tokyo other night not by Mr McCarthy Moto.

COME ' Stewart Island fishermen ° in the launch Ho Ho have so far been unsuccessful in their search for new crayfishing grounds at the Auckland islands. Ha, Ha.

“YVAIKATO Has Champion V ’ Water Polo Team,” said a headline on the sports page this week. That’s not surprising.

(")NE question for the Auckland hnoHmaßlnr who haa banned

play-lunches for children at his school. Are he and his staff setting the right example by forgoing their morning tea? '

ACCORDING to the situations vacant, fwo good men are wanted for Work with power aak. Sleeping parthers?

"VEW ZEALAND’S inarching girls, an American observer believes, are a sign of hidden fascism. Not entirely hidden either. Some of the girls a--Mosley Mussol.

pROM this week's advertisements. An expanding lady's watch, odd men's pyjama coats (do the sleeves tie at the back?) and a grey lady’s purse. Since the purse was lost, blue might have been more appropriate.

“TAAMAGE In Otorohanga: Pickets To Stop Looting”— headlines in “The Press." Change of heart or by order of the Pickets’ Union?

A COLLEAGUE of The Wiflrua A who has been on holiday in South Westland was delayed by a slip across the road at Whataroa. When he arrived in Hokitika he sent a telegram to The Walrus. It said simply: “Whataroad.”

rpHE cleanliness and protection x of meat are the pigeon of the local authority, according to Mr W. F. de Roo, the Health Department’s senior inspector in Christchurch. That’s why it is sometimes given the bird.

TAEPRESSING film news U ment. “Hell Is Sold Out” and "Love’s A Luxury.”

A BISCUIT goes this week to the Rangiora shop which boasts of its self-service record bar and browserie.

“"DEWARE the nodding thistle," " Mrs T. Taylor, president of the Mid-Canterbury provincial executive of the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers, told 300 women in Ashburton. And the jub jub bird, Mrs Taylor.

“PIVE- YEAR-OLD Boy Plays Beethoven,” said a headline in “The Press” the other day. Yes, yes, but who won?