SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 February 1950, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

Hats, with tricks, are going cheap in Taihape, according to a cricketer named Woodhead. WE WOULDN’T BE! We can’t understand people being perturbed about the high price of wool! We put the issue to ourselves: If we were offered forty quid a bale or twenty quid a bale, which would we take? We would teel perturbed at having to take 120 instead of £4O. but to get £4O instead of £2O, that wouldn’t perturb us in the least. The reasoning of these economists sometimes makes us wonder whether they know what they are talking about. Of course, if our singlet costs a quid today and goes up to thirty bob tomorrow, we will have something to say, and what we would say, being human, and not economists, would be, increase the price of wool! Wouldn’t you? COOK'S GARDENS. Dear "Sandy”: There have been several assessments of the size of the great crowd that attended lhe fireworks on Cook’s Gardens. I have reason to believe that a good many got. through the fence. I recall that not long ago, when there was some suggestion that the fences round Cook’s Gardens be tightened up. that you manipulated Cole Porter’s “Don’t Fence Me In" to suit the occasion. Would it be too much trouble to re neat the dose.—Yours, "An Admirer.' Oh, give me gaps, lots of gaps, under starry skies above, Don't fence me out! Let me skulk to the brightlighted Gardens that I love: Don't fence me out! Let me tear my trousers on the Guyton trees, And listen to the murmer of the Wilson Street breeze, Sleuth me round forever, but I ask you please. Don't fence me out! Just let me loose! Let me risk it with no ticket, underneath the Ridgway skies. On my two knees let me clamber over timber till I reach the pine clad rise; I want to crawl to the ridge where the light commences, And gaze at the sport till I lose my senses I can dodge the Bobbies, but I don’t like fences: Don't fence me out! (“Sandy’s” Corner, February 8, 1947, when the City Fathers put a firm foot down and decided to repair the Cook's Gardens fences’