...Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28606, 7 June 1958, Page 12

...Of Many Things

"FORECAST for Wellington next A week: Persistent wind and some drivel. * ANSWER to correspondent. No, General de Gaulle is not a candidate for membership of the French Prime Ministers’ Old Boys’ Association. * rpHOSE who claim that a fiver day test is too long obviously know little of Reid’s secret weapon—the English climate. AYR KHRUSHCHEV is repotted as saying that nuclear-armed American bombers flying over Canada approach the boarders of Russia. Those, of course, would be some of Mr Khrushchev’s permanents in Siberia. * POTATOES about the size of a swan’s egg are graded by awashing, waxing and packing machine now operating in Christchurch. What does it do with those as big as pigeons’ eggs? * TOURING a power black-out Mr Nash) worked by candlelight at his desk in Parliament Buildings. Burning at both ends? A GAME set was sold in Christchurch this week for £l9O. The plates were decorated ‘‘With hand-painted birds. The jug for the hare was not Tnentioned.

“JXISTILLERS Facing Unwonted u Surplus,” said a headline in “The Press’’ above a story about whisky stocks. Unwonted, not unwanted. • has been expressed at the absence of The Walrus from the meeting of the Zebra Kid and the Elephant Boy on Wednesday night. If the water in the buckets at the ringside had been siilt he might have been there. But he’s willing to go five rounds with the Carpenter any time. » * TAEPARTMENT of progress. An Auckland history lecturer says that in 1861 the 15.000 settlers in Canterbury imported three gallons of spirits, nearly two gallons of wine, and seven gallons of beer a person. The Brewers’ Society reports that New Zealanders drank 23 gallons a head last year. * A BOWERY type friend of The A Walrus, after pondering what the modern languages department of the University of Canterbury says about the pronunciation of de Gaulle commented: “Yeah. De Goil. I seen her in ‘Guys and Dolls’.” • TXISCUSSING import control U this week, the Minister of Finance (Mr Nordmeyer). said imports of “some of the things . which give people a little more comfort” would be included in the schedule. Such as whisky and golf balls. * “TAISCUSSIONS On Bananas” U said a headline in “The Press” the other day. A slippery basis for negotiation. V TAR KEITH SlNCLAlR,'senior U in history at the 'University of Aupkland, told the Canterbury Historical Association that our father figure ®f the genteel pioneer must be placed in the museum of lost illu ons. Let’s s'ee now, which of the First Four Ships brought the Sinclairs?