SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 May 1949, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

"PLAYED, SIR. BY GAD;” "Hutton’s been hiltin' un,” is a fair summing up Oi Yorksiiires innings. It looks as though we want a lew Lindwalls. MISSED THE TRAMS "The Runaway Girl" missed the trams last night. She was just ten minutes too late, ana there were some of her followers who had to walk home. While they were delighted with the show in general, they would have preferred to discuss it when tramming rather than tramping. Their representations to the society have resulted in the heroine deciding that she will run away from school a quarter of an hour earl,er tonight.

■land every other night she tells the - story of tier life. That will enable ' those who go to listen to catch the i i trams home. To cut the telling of J the story would spoil it. What happened last night went to prove again ! 1 hat while we have said many hard jthings about our rate-eating “twams" :we miss them wher. they are not I there. If you happen to live at Cas- ■ tiecliff and it is near 11 o'clock at I night and you contemplate Puriri 1 Street, trending away out beyond the '; pukeko-.nfesled Balgcwnie swamp, i' you have a feeling cl fondness rather - ihan enmity lor trains. They are ■ friends, no; enemies, of the people. |We confess that Castlecliif did not , I seem so far away to our forefathers. ■ | They thought nothing of tramping ■ there. We think it beneath dignity to tramp. We are a tramming rather - than a tramping race. Away back in the days when M'.ss Fraser was head o r the Girls’ College- she said to the I pupils one day: "Come, girls, put on I your hats and let us go for a walk.” j'i’hey walked to Castleclift and back!