...Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28530, 8 March 1958, Page 12

...Of Many Things

yyELL hopped, Sir Bunny.

rpHE M.C.C. has decided to name the new stand at Lord’s after Sir Pelham Warner. It will be made of plum wood, of course.

/COMFORTING thought for the United States Army. Better to have launched and lost than never to have launched at all.

"ITILK that keeps for a year without deterioration may soon be on sale in Britain. Some Qhristchurch people think that’s what they have been drinking for years.

TyEALTIMES at Mount Cook must be quite a sight if, as reported last week, . the men building the new Hermitage “literally eat like horses.”

“A PIECE of cake” was the A description Sir Edmund Hillary gave to the first crossing of Antarctica. South iced, presumably.

T IBERACE Refused to perform in Sydney this week because he is not allowed to play music from “My Fair Lady.” The Walrus is now waiting for the Australians to start singing, “Just You Wait, Liberace, Just You Wait.”

HpHE British people are not prepared to ufee the H-bomb first, says a Gallup Poll report. Apparently they were not asked if they thought they would have a chance to use it second.

EPORTS from Wellington indl. cate that the appointment of Mr Jones as New Zealand High Commissioner in Canberra has acted as a fillip to recruiting of staff for the Department of External Affairs.

ANSWER to correspondent. No, just because Sir Vivian Fuchi was in the bath when he received the news, it doesn’t mean that his knighthood is in the Order of the Bath.

have been called for A the supply of bread to Gov. ernment departments. Why not let them eat cake?

A NEWCASTLE judge has deA cided that a wife who blacked her husband’s eye, poured water over him, scratched his face, and threw a rose bowl at hfrn, was not cruel. But at least she was versatile.

A RATHER premature offering at the Methven ewe fair this week was 2000 A.D. halfbred ewes. They’ll be fully bred in another 42 years.

ZAN April 1 a complete change* will be made in the pay accounting system of the Royal New Zealand Navy. By that time somebody will have decided who’g going to pay for the damage to the Black Prince.

T)ETECTIVES in Napier are investigating what is described as the year’s oddest theft—the removal of a telephone from a booth. Nothing odd about that The taker has been waiting for a telephone for three years.

{CORNFLAKE is fancied for the main race at Wingatui today. Coupled with Stewed Fruit?

rpHE comedian, Bob Hope, has been unable to get a visa to visit Russia. No Road to Moscow.

The new Anglican church at Spreydon will heat 250 persons, it is reported. They must be getting a hot gospeller as a parson.