SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 January 1948, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllhilllllilllllllllllllllliiliiilllllllllllllllllllllli™ WAY OUT. We suggest that a public meeting be called (Cook's Gardens would surely be big enough) of all parents who feel they are in need of instruction in how to teach children at home by radio and correspondence. Headmasters and mistresses, plus the inspectors, could give short speeches on the subject: “How to teach your own child in your own home, in you/ own time; money back if not satisfied! FORDELL AGAIN! Fordell looms back into the new*. First it was a place where tunnels played trains with the engineers, then it boomed along into a place with an underground railway (they even had to shift the railway station almost down into the earth); then there was a song about X engines and a smoky tunnel. Now Fordell has a mysterious weed that, apparently, has been wished on it from afar. A weed, mark you, that gets great big flaring headlines in our modest press. Somebody suggested to us that the weed be termed "secret," xfc but how could that be, after Fordell got such headlines round it? There must be a wise and progressive head directing the publicity of Fordell. Careful. Taihape or Marton, you might be eclipsed. WHO STARTED IT? “Sandy,"—Your Bulls poet v. Taihape poet duel is getting under my skin. With the poet writing of how we get milk from Bulls to make butter and our local bard hitting back hard and often, sparks are beginning to fly. Yesterday a young salesman called upon me. When leaving, he said: “I will leave my address . . ,” but before he wrote it I knew it. Yes, it was Bulls His line of talk and his home town clicked! I went to put his address on the table and believe it or not, Sandy, there was a letter there from a Mrs. Yew, whose address was Cowes, England. I then went outside for a breath of fresh air and my neighbour calls out: "Say, I’ve had a letter from our old pal Steere," then t I swooned! "Sandy,” you started it Utiku Mat.