SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 168, 18 July 1945, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

THE POWNALL TROPHY LOST Dear "Sandy"—Well, we've had it and you've got it. No complaints "Sandy:” we were beaten for. and aft. wide-ways and side-wavs included. Tilly of Titi Street, says she was thrilled with the Wanganui players who “wore a bridle minus reins.” We don’t see much head gear up this way —unless it i s in the milliners—so that may account for Tilly’s description. Poor Katie of Kaka Road shed so many tears over the loss of the trophy that she looks positively de-hydrated! Sorry I massed you at. the milk bar—my' mistake "Sandy”--! must have been at some bar. because the next day I had a feeling I had been drinking "mutes milk" . . . something with a kick in it, anyhow. I distinctly remember leaning over some bar and asking for a "breaker" and all I got was a heave’! If. and when. Taihapes plays the return game and meets with' the same fate, just, show me the site of the crematorium will you? 11l camp there until it’s ready for business. Many feeble cheers.—Yours. UTIKU MAT. WANGANUI LIKE RUSSIA? A 2nd Z..E.C . ollicer (a major and Ibereiore tnlalitulet nas returned iu isngland from Russia with very mixeu leenngs. Among other things 'nc rarely saw peop.e smile, inert weie no snops, just buymg centres, ana tne people were divided into live classes. Reading what lie nad to say we couth not help nut led now uke ttanganui Russia must be. Walk down tne

Avenue or Broadway, Marton, or .'lam Street, ’t ainape anti see now mampeople smile. We guarantee tna, even though you look lor them, you will see very tew. We are an undemonstrative race. As tor buying centres and no shops—w hat are the big departmental stores m vVangauu: out bu.vmg centres. You go there to buy and make your favourite store a centre. Tney are centres just as readily. as shops. As lor classincat.on ot people ... in Russia they nave live classes, who live and eat according!v, rising from labourers to foremen, to theatricel people, the services and lega, profession .mu Itnally commissars, w'no are the best oft of ail. We have them all in Wanganui even the commissars, though those we call bv a different name—verj different! Let nobotiv here have any misgivings about the class they happen to belong to. At the moment we are rather priding ourselves on our membership of the Wanganui Amateur Musical and Dramatic Society and ot the Savage Cluo. reckoning that both lift us a bit in the social world - third from bottom. Hui we have not realised until now how great a tall it was to take off U;e King’s uniform and drop from the proud second place of honour to neai the last. Even if a man lived on St. John's Hill (God forbid I that would not make up for such a crash. Luckv flie lawyers who w ere soldiers. When they took off their uniforms ana donned whatever civvies the "commissars" permitted, their social position remained steadfast, even though they lived 'mid the lupins and sand of Castlecliff. We have to thank the N.Z. major who has come back from Russia. He has confirmed our belief that Wanganui and not Moscow, leads the world. What a disillusioned man the N.Z. Minister over there 'Mr. Boswell) must, be.