SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 18 May 1950, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

People act foolishly over little things. Somebody, because of that, is prompted to say that it might be better if everybody talked more and did less. POPULAR FALLACIES. That New Zealand has had a perfect scrummage since the days of the two-three-two. HEADACHE! “Rugby selectors had a headache after yesterday’s trial,” says a newspaper headline. Nothing like the headache they'll have if Britain wins the first tost. TOWN TOPICS. If you listen as you walk there are pointers in the Avenue talk. At Guyton Street Comer: You can take my word for it, the high prices of wool mean war within three years. At Maria Place: The team's crook* They should have had the Taranaki half-back in, and why they didn’t choose Haig beats me. At the Post Office: Aramoho was the first suburb to have trams, now she’i the first to lose them. Halfway between the Post Office and Maria Place: When they played "The Belle of New York” last time they had an adagio team. At Taupo Quay: If Don Beard had belonged to any other union he’d have keen in (which we interpret as being the opposite of the belief that a rose by any other name would smell at sweet).