PERSONAL

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 99, 17 December 1943, Page 3

PERSONAL

Miss P. McMaster has been appointed a probationary assistant teacher at the Leeston Consolidated School, to begin duty in February.

At the Leeston Consolidated School on Wednesday afternoon the children assembled to bid farewell to Miss M. A. Gallen, who relinquishes her position on the school staff at the end of this year. The headmaster (Mr W. H. Cartwright), in presenting- Miss Gallen with a gift on behalf of the children and staff, spoke in appreciation of the good work she had done in the school and wished her every success in the future. Miss Gallen, in expressing thanks for the gift, said that she had spent a very happy year at Leeston.

The British people pay 2/4 for a packet of 20 cigarettes; l/8_ of this is duty. They pay 1/- per pint for beer of the present reduced average strength and 7}d. of this is duty.

"A Nazi journalist who had visited Luxemburg wrote in his paper: 'The Luxemburgers have a good character. They are germanophile, - honest, and intelligent.' The Luxemburg underground newspaper 'Ons Hemecht ,v (Our Country) reprinted this statement and added the following comment: 'Our distinguished colleague must be wrong. Any Luxemburg individual can have only two of these alleged;, national characteristics. Either he is germanophile and intelligent, then he can certainly not ba honest. If he is honest aifd germanophileA then he cannot be intelligent. But if he is inteligent and honest, it is quite impossible for him to be germanophile'."— Edinburgh "Scotsman."