Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1947, Page 6

Oddments

Catering for youth. — Dancing award noted in a city contemporary yesterday: “Barefoot dance under 71 years.” :S S: * One New York newspaper calls Mr Attlee’s programme “Blood, toil, and diet.” Another says, “Britain’s people have got nothing more to lose but their appetites.” ❖ # Here is a snatch of conversation overheard in a railway carriage: “Since I began to make my own cigarettes, I have smoked a great deal less.” Friend: “Since my wife began to make mine, I have stopped smoking altogether.” * * * * * Andrei Gromyko, the man who says “No” for Russia at UNO, writesi to the New York Times to point out that he had accidentally inserted the word “No” in an article he wrote for them.—Daily Express. i[: SS According to a contemporary, Wataroa farmers are reported to be in favour of the recent decision to increase the production of the Cooperative Lime Works at Ross, and are looking forward to a more liberal supply of lime in the future to raise dairy production in this area. » *

“This is the best since the time of the town clock argument,” commented the Mayor, Mr F. A. Kitchingham, at last evening’s meeting of the Westland Progress League, when referring to the controversy regarding the establishment of a lime-works at Cobden. “Even then they said that the limestone hills were no good,” he added. * * * * * Smarting under some imagined injustice a small boy ran away from home—into the back garden. There he remained for half an hour, lurking among the laurels, and hoping for a hue and cry. None came, so he stalked back into the dining-room, where the family sat at tea. Not even the boy’s mother looked in his direction, and it was abominably clear that his absence had gone unremarked. That was the crowning insult. Taking his stand firmly on the hearthrug, he said bitterly: “I see you still’have the same old cat.” —The Seeker