Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1947, Page 6

Oddments

The. Communist Premier of Czechoslovakia speaks of the unity of Slav countries round the Soviet Union.” Hasn’t an “e” dropped out somewhere? s’: S: ® *

To suggest that the House of Representatives is divided among 38 Europeans on each side and four Maoris is the greatest slight ever made on the Maori people, says Mr Nash. Perhaps he would prefer to reckon it as composed of Europeans, Australians, and New Zealanders.

Field-Marshal Montgomery says he does not agree with the statement that the soldiers won the war and now it is up to the politicians to win the peace. Soldiers do not approve of gas warfare. "

Certain types of plant can be vaccinated against some insects, a soil expert at New York has revealed. This opens a new approach to the problem of pest control. The newlydeveloped vaccine is sodium selenate, a white, crystalline, inorganic compound which readily dissolves in water. It is applied to the soil and is then readily absorbed by the plants through their roots. * :!< :S ® *

An interesting conversation was overheard yesterday • afternoon in front of a shop in Mackay street which is displaying the robes of Carajalo, one of the principals in “The Toreador.” The parties were three elderly women. “I wonder what that costume is for?” asked-the first. “I don’t know, but Lord Montgomery is "coming here tomorrow,” remarked the second. The third contribution, however, settled the argument. It was: “I know, it will be the Mayoral robes.” • :?• sj: >!: $ The headmaster of Clifton College, Bristol, Mr B. L. Hallward, says he is going to expel some of the boys unless their parents behave better during the holidays. He has a good point. How, he asks, can he get on with the job of turning out some decent young God-fearing gentlemen if the parents don’t back him up? How can he promote the good old English standards of honesty and right dealing if all the boys hear at home is gossip about the black market?

“But it isn’t all the parents’ fault. I took my son, aged 18, to see ‘Othello.’ At tht end he said: ‘I don’t see that lago was so terribly wicked. After all, he only tried to wangle things like money. . . .’ “I’ll swear he never learned that one at home.”—Daily Express. —The Seeker