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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22023, 4 August 1933, Page 16

The winter of our discontent is not | loro —ve use Kaitangata Coal. —Advt. The wearing of shamrock in London on St. Patrick's Day seems to he declining every year, although there are more Irish dinner's there than ever (says the Manchester Guardian). Mr Dulanty, the Free State High Commissioner, however, is said to have dined at at least four of them on St. Patrick’s Night, as befitted the most popular Irishman in town. One explanation why there are fewer shamrocks to be seen in the streets is offered by a correspondent who went into a famous Irish tavern in Fleet street and asked whv (Imre were no bowls of shamrock on the bar. The barman replied that the distillers were not sending shamrock now. That was bad enough, said the correspondent, but to make it worse the man, with a good Irish accent, was wearing a red rose in his coat. To wear a red rose in one’s tavern on March 17 is surely one of the most daring deeds ever done on St. Patricks Day.