SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 October 1946, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

HOUSE SAT SATURDAY! Is Joe Cotterill going to sponsor a Bill before the House inflicting a 40 hour, five-day week on Members of Parliament? DECORATIONS IOR ARAMOHO AND WANGANUI EAST. Main outlet front Wanganui East to the pulsating metropolis and the great world beyond, Dublin Street has become a nerve centre lor many Wanganui East telephones and several in Aramoho. The change-over was accomplished on Saturday night without any untoward incident. “Back to the manual that more telephones can be installed"—that is the measure of the sacrifice that Wanganui East and Aramoho are making. We bow gratefully to those suburos, smilingly remolding both that the automatic equipment which will bring them back to tlie modern world again is on order; but like many more things that are on order, so many people must be willing before they can be supplied - people ranging from Stalin in his Kremlin, to the watersider at his waterside. Until then we bow in humble homage to those two sellsacrillcial suburbs. If ever a medal is cast for heroic duty to a suburb's suburban fellows, then it should go to Wanganui East and Aramoho. Beautiful Joan SI. John's, Gert Gonville, Carrie of the 'Cliff. Maud ot Poverty Flat and Jill of Durie Hill Intend throwing a cocktail party tor Winnie Wanganui East, Anne Aramoho and Sadie Sedgebrook. We suggest that that party would be an appropriate place for those new subscribers out Gonville way, some ot whom were wakened at midnight to answer their new telephones, to present medals. It is possible that Sadie may qualify for "mention in despatches" only, because the measure ot her sacrifice van perhaps be compared to the man who fought a good war at base against the chap who stormed El | Alamein. We don't know, but it is