Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 July 1947, Page 6

Oddments

The West Coast’s reputation for an absence of serious crime is being maintained. For the second time within 12 months jurors called for the quarterly session of the Supreme Court have had their services dispensed with, there being no cases for their attention. :■? * * * «s Lady school teachers have asked to be allowed to wear slacks on duty. Considering current educational trends, they seem a little too manly. % & # More and Better Hops PlannedLabour daily headline. Not before the end of Che session, surely. tf. % :? S ! > ! The Government is said to be considering proxy voting in Parliament. This should dispose of the criticism that a Socialist club is incompetent to provide against a possible power shortage. $: <: . Mr Fraser said his own belief was that had the boundaries not been changed the Government would have been stronger in the present House than it was. What Government?

The court room at Hokitika today resembled more a produce market than a place of justice. Exhibits in court, in connection with price regulation and game shooting cases, included mutton, a grey cluck, two pukeko and cabbages. * * #

Lord Hyndley, chief of Britain’s National Coal Board, promises that better coal will be marketed. His remark that much of the coal going into homes and factories' is “capable of improvement” is a .-record for understatement. —George V. Ormsby, London correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. * * S: * ' “When the Poets’ Affiliated Federation met last night to discuss plans for their coming strike, Shop Steward Gregori Flook, who led the Pastoral Section, was ejected for smacking the chairwoman’s face. This incident arose when she charged Flook with having only one foot in serious poetry and the other in the greeting card racket.”—London columnist. # « There recently appeared in something or other an impassioned appeal to stocking manufacturers, of all people. In view of the fact that nine out of ten women wear their stockings inside out, the manufacturers were being asked to reverse the seams. And why not? This is the sort of progress for which, on and off I have been crusading half my lifetime. Mind you, personally, I would far rather see stockings made with no seams at all because then women would never know whether to wear them inside out, or outside in, or- one the right way and the other reversed, and so on. Well, would they?—Daily Express. —The Seeker