SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 202, 24 August 1944, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

SAYINGS OF THE AVENUE. The difference between Home Guarding and home gardening is verywide indeed. SCHOOLBOY PESSIMISM. Our Bobbie: Just like the teachers to talk of going on strike in holiday time. Let 'em be reasonable and face up to their problems as soon as school starts. I'm all in favour of it. IT TAKES ALL TYPES . . . Wanganui just now is discussing big, and little things. The crematorium still looms largely in tne minds of those who will pay the bill to put it up; the far-seeing are looking at transpox-t, not only as something that puffs and travels on rails, or chugs up-stream when the mast at Castlecliff says “O.K.,'' but as something which roars and Hies overhead; the deep thinkers are planning Unit soldiers, sailors and airmen can come back to something to do; Bill Stone manages to keep the gas works going, whether on Rata or coal we don't know; the City fathers still sit; the tunnel-menders at Fordell still mend; the trams still run; the pictures still show; the Nat. R. and Home Guard still discuss the days when they stood between Wanganui and Japanese Invasion; the Pirates Rugby stalwart* still talk of the days when they were * champion team, back in 1926. Into this picture of terrific mental energy conies a man who wants to know when Queen Victoria died. Was it before the Boer War. or after? Who actually won the Boer War. and what general was in command of the British when it was won, and when did he die?