...Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28784, 3 January 1959, Page 10

...Of Many Things

UR -NORDMEYER’S New Yeai resolution. To beat Trevoi Brough’s world shearing recorc in 1959. * ' " ' A LEC GUINNESS, the film star, has been knighted. Presumably his next film will be “KinC Hearts But No Coronet.” PjISCRIMINATION department u When Father Christmas pale his traditional visit to the Ashburton Public Hospital and the Malvern Hospital he was reported to have distributed gifts to “every single patient.”

“VVILL New Zealand Play Bright Rugby Against The British Lions?” said a headline on the 'sports page the other day. The answer is no, no, a thousand times no.

A MAN who dived through a window in a desperate attempt to escape at Auckland last week was later charged in the Magistrate’s Court with breaking and entering. Surely he should have been charged with breaking and exiting.

ACCORDING to a cricket report, all the Central Districts bowlers finished . one of the Plunket Shield matches with excellent figures. Nothing like a spell of bowling for that bulging waistline. * “ANIMAL Homes Fully Taxed For Holidays,” said a headline . this week. Surely Miss Howard won’t let Mr Nordmeyer get away with that. • A FRENCH beauty consultant visiting Scotland considers that perfume can be used far too lavishly. In fact, too much is not decent. VEW ZEALAND'S first lighthouse is reported to have been financed by a tax on spirits. And no doubt it was lit by will-o’-the-wisps. “TIfOOLOO Wins At Winton,” said a headline in the racing news this week. A win at Hamilton on August 22 would be much more popular. * TWTR Rpmard Cinlrifine. the

MB Bernard Goldfine, the Boston industrialist, has been sent toi prison for three months for criminal contempt As Mar- . lowe might have said, there’ll now be infinite riches in a little room.

AN October 29 a man advertised " in the “agony column” of “The Times” asking for the loan of a live walrus to take to an oyster luncheon. What a pity “The Times” takes so long to get here. ,