SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 7, 9 January 1946, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

DO WE NEED TO WORK? Dear “Sandy,”— With all this talk for and against Saturday closing, may I make a suggestion? What about the newspapers having a five-day week? That would be alright until some punter wanted a tip for Saturday’s races. (Not that the tips are any good!) Then again, what about the ■ -poshes. ’ I am sure those girls could do with a spell at the week-end. Make it alternate. That would give them a week-end every two weeks. And what about our trains and trams? What a n'oan if they decided to cease running on Saturdays—and why not?—l am, etc., “FRA PETE.” Why work at all. As a matter of fact we'd sooner play bowls, or go fishing.—“S.” THE TOAST IS: “THE DIVISION:* (.ihe 2nd New Zealand Division has cea ed to exist; only a brigade group and administrative units remain in the Middle East. A fine lighting force has passed into history—News item). Good-bye Egypt, farewell Cairo; one last glimpse of a sluggish Nile. K'tatciy Egmont calls us home from that monotonous pyramidal pile; Our tents are folded, our Division gone; soon v.e’ll be growing old, And you, your Nile, Pyramids, the sand, all within the desert fold, Wil] merge into a memory of unreal, flaming, bloody years, A memory as indelible as, to others, is Armcntieres— Olympus, Crete, Tobruk, grim retreat! —Then, flaming El Alameln, Gateway to victory, to the journey to the Lombaidv plain! We leave it al] behind, gladoned in heart, hopeful for what’s in store: Farewell to the sweat, the mud, the blood, the gloom and the loves of war. We rejoice. How glad vve are to leave -yet we’ll remember you. Maybe in better light, in the year! ahead, as our fathers do. » Can't you picture us Maadi, years hence, standing with precision, As wo dunk toco her at reunion, our toast: “The Division?” ■ “.Sandy** Wanganui, January 9, 1946.