...Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28618, 21 June 1958, Page 12

...Of Many Things

ANSWER to correspondent. No, Rabiat Prior, the cat from the Christchurch Methodist Children's Home now serving at Hallett station in the Antarctic, is not what is known as a snocat.

PARLIAMENTARY Machine Said To Be Outdated,” said a headline the other day. Too much wind in the tyres?

A FTER 46 years in the board's employ, Mr R. R. Senior, secretary of the Drainage Board, has retired. Some old hands on “The Press” can remember wnen he was only the Junior.

IN future, Auckland City Council committee reports will be presented in eight different colours, including gold, amber, pink, and green. Black, no doubt, will be reserved for the report which announces increases in the rates.

“T have a story that will shock -*■ and rock the taxpayers of this country.” The Minister of Defence, addressing the R.S.A. conference on the Government s defence plans. Please, Mr Connolly, don't shock the rock.

TRWIN SHAW’S novel, “The -*■ Young Lions,” has been made into a film and an enterprising writer has now produced a book of the film. If his book is filmed and a book is written about it and it is made into a film and . . . those lions are going to be awfully mangy when the series ends.

TJUMOUR - CRUSHING plant. -*■* There is no truth in the story that the owner of Yahabeebe was dismissed from the teaching service by the Director of Edu'cation.

rpHE Labour Party could be forgivfen if it now believed that the initials C.M.T. stood for Causing Much Trouble.

was the theme of the ball held in Dunedin last night to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of John McGlashan College. Presumably music was provided by a steel bagpipe band.

A MAN mistaken for a pig was awarded damages the other day after he had been shot at. He should have been wearing a hat.

XfRS JANIE SIMS, aged 27, water skied 200 miles from Augusta to Savannah. Probably she just got tired of waiting for a bus.

HUR gardening correspondent ” suggested in his notes this week that the job can be done without digging the soil. The Walrus has been doing that for years.

TY EFUSING a long-range invitation to go to “The Marriage of Figaro” in Ashburton next month, an Ashburton girl complained that she didn’t know he was engaged.

VTEW ZEALAND is to produce gin. Well some of our dairy farmers may be able to produce the bitters after the new guaranteed price is announced.

rpHE New South Wales Department of Education will soon introduce a campaign to encourage high school children to speak like Australians. What about a campaign here to encourage high school children not to speak like New Zealanders?

A BAKERY firm in New Plymouth has been fined for selling a fruit square which contained a nail. There was some excuse. What else could it use to keep the corners together?

XTR J- W. FRASER, president of the National Beekeepers’ Association, says that gin distilled from honey will taste like gin, not honey. How funny.

XTR GODFREY BOWEN, chief shearing instructor to the Wool Board, says the best way to publicise New Zealand butter in Britain would be to send teams of hard-talking farmers into the country districts where the people knew little or nothing of this country. High country musterers might be better, Mr Bowen. Their flow of language is greater.