...Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28630, 5 July 1958, Page 12

...Of Many Things

AD VICE, to Mr Nordmeyer de- " partment. Why not hand the whole shooting match over to the Wells Organisation?

rpHE New Zealand cricketers in x England spent the day befoife the test was due to Ipegin playing soccer with a Rugby League ball. What sort of practice did they have before the other two tests?

rpHE Prime Minister of Persia x was reported the other day to have presented a new PersianCanadian oil agreement to the Lower Mouse of Parliament. No doubt he first addressed himself to Mr Squeaker.

rpHE increase in the price of A petrol will doubtless lead once again to the sale of a spate of fuel-saving car accessories. This will be old stuff to some vintage motorists, a few of whom probably remember the fate of the driver who fitted so many successful petrol-saving devices to his Model T that every now and then he had to stop to bale petrol out of the tank.

rpHE Prime Minister says it is x always wise to wait and see. Not always, Mr Nashquith.

TNCIDENTAL intelligence. There 1 is a shop in Christchurch producing hand-made rabbits. The Rabbit Destruction Council needn’t start worrying. They’re only sweets.

“pOWER Failure in Fendalton,” A Said a headline the other day. At least they’ve got the Watts.

AfR R- LINDS, a lecturer in geography at the University of Canterbury, says New Zealand must try to become the Switzerland of the Southern Hemisphere. We have the Alps, to be sure, but has he ever tried to yodel a haka?

A RING of trade posts around A the globe is aimed at by the Minister of Industries and Commerce. Presumably Mr Holloway will be trying to sell New Zealand firewater to the Indians.

WHEN there was a frost of 12.4 ’ * degrees on Monday, a butcher in Dallington found it warmer to stay in his cooler than in his shop. Monday’s cold joint

ATONEY, in the physical sense, is becoming redundant for millions of Americans, reports Frank Oliver, a special correspondent in New York. The same thing is going to happen in New Zealand.

ONE or two new faces would w be welcome in the 1958 wrestling season, says a Welling-, ton sports writer. And a few new wrestlers.

f)UR ‘politicians should be worried about the story of the man who bought an English golf course because he was barred from the club. One day some wealthy and disgruntled taxpayer might decide to buy Parliament

A tennis coach in the Hutt Valley claims that the Budget is the best we’ve ever had because by 1960 all our athletes should be in great form for the Olympic Games, having done without beer or cigarettes. The electors ought also to be in good form in the same year (if they have to wait so long).

T?ISH retailers deny that elephant x fish is the biggest seller in Christchurch. “We do stock it, but we call it bream,” said a spokesman for one shop. And what do they call bream when they stock it?

QINCE the University Drama Society began concerning itself with the production of “Hamlet” the toast in student drinking circles has been “Skull!” instead of “Skol!”

/ALD Walrus’s Almanack. Towards the end of 1958 complaints of beer bottles on roads will diminish.

T>OAD construction notices on the corner of Memorial avenue and Russley road: “Caution. Euclid At Work.” He will not, however, be assisted with the bridges by Pythagoras.

A NSW ER to correspondent “Wondering.”—No, the new wing at St. Helens maternity hospital is not for the stork.

ITS not only companies that A need to worry about the excess retention tax on their profits. The Government seems to have put a tax on the retention of everyone’s profits.

A NEW engine that uses no A water or petrol, but runs on “near-perpetual motion” has been invented, according to the cable news. Try and tax that, Mr Nordmeyer. J

AYR HOLYOAKE has challenged’ the Government to take the’ Budget to the country for the people’s verdict. The Government’s answer is not known yet, but we suspect it was given many years ago by Eliza Doolittle.