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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22025, 7 August 1933, Page 2

The wearing of shamrock in London on St. Patrick’s Day seems to be 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 moat 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 why there were no howls 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 ot the most daring deeds over done on St. Patrick’s Day. The winter of our discontent is not here—wo use Kaitangata Coal.—Advt.