SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 3 October 1946, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

NUREMBERG! The Nuremberg sentences merely reflect a return to what always happened, or nearly always, in the days of old. The enemy who lost had his head chopped off, or was put into a dungeon. Nowadays we hang them, instead of putting them to death by the axe. In the old days, that law applied not only to the enemy. It applied to our own. Woe betide the general who came back and said: “My queen, the battle has been lost!” He lost his head, that was always the understood thing etiquette, you might say. THE SELF-RELIANT EAST. Wanganui’s new telephone directory, which by the way is to remain incognito until the bewitching hour of midnight Saturday, is all decked up in colours this time. At least. Mart oh gets a colour all to itself—green. There is the usual liberal sprinkling of red (we seem to have seen that colour before) and more than (he ordinary amount of instructions. Dublin Street is coruing into the picture now as an exchange. Some subscribers have been removed from automatic to manual, and have looked upon the change as something of doubtful honour.

“Why pick on Wanganui East?'* was a query put to us by a Wanganui East resident.

We felt we didn’t know except perhaps that the department, was seeking to give Poverty Flat a lift into prominence, to create it as a nerve centre for the great metropolis. On lhe other hand the department may have felt that in Wanganui East the city could find people of hardy pioneer stock, capable of living as their grandfathers liver, without these new fangled switches and things. Sturdy, self-reliant Wanga. nui East, back on the manual plrmes again! Poverty Flat a nerve centre. Wanganui East the rugged, individualists of the city—better pull your

souks up St. John’s. We look 1o you, as the last lone piece of aristocracy, to do something in the near future to justify yourself. Castlecliff and Gonville went out into Taranak' so as to

owe allegiance to this great primary producing country. Wanganui East has given evidence of its self-reliance, Poverty Flat is a nerve centre. Wtyt glory is fated for St. John’s?