SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 200, 22 August 1944, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

Ohingaiti: Halley’s comet was last seen m New Zealand in 1910. Reads a notice in a Wanganui butchers shop: “Will the person who took a watch ironi this shop please call and get the chain.” We wonder whether there will be any response. THE LATE REV. W. W. LAMBERT We always knew that the late Rev. W. W. Lambert was a well-travelled and a likeable man, but we remember him best because of his part in a play in the Wanganui Repertory ilicatre (was it one produced by the Drama League?). He played the part of a bishop, who, lost at night, came upon a camp of poachers who had already caught their trout. The bishop enjoyed his meal in the soft, firelight glow, and was thankful for the frienuly atmosphere about him. His reaction to the coming of the gamekeepers emphasised the moral of the play. We recall that bishop’s predicament to-day as we recall the man who played the part—likeable, broad-minded and appealing. N.Z.’s ‘ BUXOM GIRLS.” > The Kiwi has been overseas an average of three years, and, like all the soldiers of the democracies, he longs for the land he caJLs home, says a staff writer in the Stars and Stripes, American serwAs magazine in the Mediterranean. He wants to get the war won as soon as possible and get back to his peacetime pursuits. Tie misses the rolling Canterbury Plains, the bright green tern trees which line the shady banks of the broad Wanganui River, (he Blue Pacific rolling into the shining sands of a hundred New Zealand beaches. Most of all he misses the healthy, buxom girls produced by the .islands under the Southern Cross. Fortunately, the Kiwi who told the enterprising staff writer all this remains anonymous, thanking the powers for the freedom of the Press, because we can imagine the bevy of welcome that would await his arrival back- in New’ Zealand from the girls he has so grossly libelled. N.Z. gilrls are slim! You ask them and they’ll tell you! They simply hate that word “buxom.”