Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1948, Page 4

Oddments

One butcher to another: “The meat business is getting back to normal—today a customer insulted me.”

Will Appleton, Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand, visiting London, not for the first time, checked a taxi driver for going the wrong way, said: “I’m not as big a fool as I look, you know.” The taxi driver grinned, replied: “No, but I wish you was, guv’nor.”—Daily Mail. Sc S; Sc Sc

Mr Ernest Marples is a persistent Conservative M.P. He continues to flourish a £5OO cheque in Mr Aneurin Bevan’s face, offering to wager that amount on Mr Bevan having been guilty of a terminological inexactitude in his housing figures. Mr Bevan ignores the challenge., He doesn’t like this game of Marples.—The London Recorder. u-. * * * .f

“Jacques” writes to the Otago Daily Times as follows: —“The smug satisfaction with which the decision not to provide the All Blacks with dinner suits has been hailed indicates the very definite insularity of the people of this country, and shows a very poor understanding of life outside our complacent democracy. Surely it is reasonable to place our most respected sporting representatives on a plane befitting their proved place as ambassadors of our country, and to give them the opportunity of appearing at other than informal functions during their visit to South Africa? The mentality of those who decry any formality almost suggests that the All Blacks would be true representatives of the country if they wore bowyangs, and if the New Zealand Rugby Union wants to save money it could achieve that object by supplying sufficiently generous fern leaves to hide their ’ shame. A melancholy world!” —The Seeker