Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 October 1948, Page 4

Oddments

It is denied in Whitehall that the reason for Britain’s present crisis is that someone threw a planner into the works.—London Opinion.

;S :!: * # * The motor-car which “touches 60 miles per hour within a few seconds of starting” seems to be the answer to the pedestrian’s prayer. Nothing does more to solve the problem of death and mutilation on the roads than the untiring efforts of the manufactures to increase the speed of aceleration. Any motorist will tell you that it is the slowly moving car which is a danger to pedestrians —especially to those who have the effrontery to try to cross a road.—Daily Express. e. * s *

Is an Englishman’s home his castle? Not any more, says Councillor C. W. White, of Tiveton (Devon) Rural Council.

Of farmer William Edwards, who twice refused to permit an official into his home to measure rooms for a housing survey,White said: He still imagines an Englishman’s home is his castle, but those days are gone.” The council decided to ask Edwards again. *ss « v

“A whistler is a healthy, happy man and that’s the type I want for conductors,” declares the chairman of She Melbourne Tramways Board, commenting on a “whistling while you work” ban on Adelaide trams because the practice cheapens the service and the employees responsible.”

Whistling conductors would attract passengers rather than annoy them, he said. “I remember when a whistling policeman was very popular here.”

The secretary of the Tramways Employee’s Association agreed with the chairman but said that most tram-men were too busy to whistle. However, spring might stimulate them.

—-The Seeker