SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 January 1948, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

Still another union coming up: The Wanganui East Branch of the Industrial Union of Saleyard Opponents. SAW RED, FELT BLUE! When we go to the Bank of New Zealand, Wanganui, nowadays, we “see red.’' The lassies working there, in this great era of socialism and equality of the sexes, are garbed in red smocks, the flaring colour of social uplift in politics, the burning brightness of a brave new world. “Aren’t they lovely?” said the little brunette we had dealings with. “The latest!” Appropriate for a State bank with a Government that uses red as its colour, we thought and. with our usual “tact,” we said so. Then w< got cur pass book, and as we left the bank the brunette in red smiled i red-lipped smile. We looked into oui pass book, saw the letters “Dr,.* when we expected “Cr.” and they were in red! We left that bank with its red Government ownership, its red smocked, red lipped girls, seeing red but feeling blue. TO CORRESPONDENT.

“Taihape-ite”: Your poem in criticism of Wanganui, in reply to some of our references to that town which nestles where the Hautapu cascades its way to the sea, is published in the Taihape column this morning. We must be a terrible place. Still. Taihape hasn't got a crematorium. Nobody can hold that against us.—“S.”