Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1947, Page 6

Oddments

During the showing of a health film at a function organised by the Catholic Home and School Association in the Marist Hall at Hamilton the daily menus for hot meals supplied ir. one school were shown. Dr. Dawson remarked that the item providing for Irish stew on Friday had probably been overlooked by the censor. ❖ ❖ ❖. ❖ ❖ A poor view of the equipment of the Westport Fire Brigade is apparently held in some official quarters. “Junk,” was the description applied by a member of the Westport Borough Council during a discussion this week, and he then went on to “deplore the latest addition to the junk-pile: a battle-scarred engine from the Pacific still containing the remnants, of coral shells on arrival.”

It was during the visit of the Royal Family to South Africa that the following conversation between Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret was recorded by Hannen Swaffer in the publication The People. It is said to have taken place while the Royal couple were strolling with their escorts outside a ballroom. Said Princess Elizabeth: “It’s getting late. We ought to go back inside.” To which Princess Margaret is said to have replied: “I prefer it out here. You go and look after your empire. I’ll look after myself!” ? :S sis # * One sentence of Winston Churchill’s famous “We-will-fight-on-the-beaches” broadcast to the world after Dunkirk that- was heard by only one man—Dr Hewlett Johnson, dean of Canterbury—has been revealed by the dean. “During the broadcast,” Dr Johnson said, “Mr Churchill put his hand over the microphone, and in an aside, said to me with a smile: ‘We will hit them over the heads with beer bottles, which is all we have really got’.” -—The Seeker