RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29265, 25 July 1960, Page 22

RANDOM REMINDER

BLUE SKIES

The birds have permission to sing again today; the Rugby test has been won. The AU Blacks will no doubt feel elated, but their satisfaction will be as nothing compared with the joy of thousands of New Zealand housewives and children. Since the distresssing events of June 25 at Johannesburg, life in New Zealand has not been easy. Men have been gathering in anxious clusters to discuss this crisis in their affairs; in some parts of the country, work was almost at a standstill, again. The share market has been

depressed. The retail trade has been hard hit On the domestic front, things have not been much better. Men noted for their amiability have been cruelly curt to their nearest and dearest, and if the atmosphere has been conducive to some exemplary behaviour from the youngsters, the lack of bonhomie has been distressingly apparent. But today it will all be different, and it can be confidently asserted that this happy state of affairs will be maintained at least until the early morning

hours of August 13. Feminine horoscopes for the day should say something about it being an opportune time to buy a new spring wardrobe, children will not have to ask for their weekly allowance of pocket money. And there will be, inevitably , a whole host of critics who knew all along that the first test defeat was pure accident, or attributable entirely to the altitude, the referee, the crowds, and the unfair tactics of the Springboks. This time, of course, we won on our merits.