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Wanganui Chronicle, 19 July 1950, Page 4

Fire In School The Wanganui Fire Brigade responded to a call at 10.55 a.m. yesterday to the GonvJle School, to deal with an Incipient outbreak.

SANDY'S CORNER They have hoisted the United Nations flag in Korea. Let’s hope they won’t have to haul it out of there. QUANTITY, NOT COLOUR. Somebody rang a Maori friend at National Park to find out whether the roads were open, and was it snow ing up there? “By korry, snowing, yes." he said. “Te mountain, she black with it!" BIASSED! A newspaper heading says that the president of the New Zealand Bowling Association deplores an apparent I island bias. He hasn't got bia» I trouble on his own! You should see J the face of the skip when his lead j puts down a bowl with not so great a thing as an island bias, but an ordinary, common wrong bias! It seems to us that the trouble with all bowlers : is really bias—when you get down ‘ I to tin tacks. THE DRAINLESS TOT I Dear Sandy: I We gaze upon the muddy lake J That’s known as Toi Street, ’■ And watch the soil-stained motor-can . That once were clean and neat; j The noisy little children I That scamper by from school I Go wading in their gumboots Through every muddy pool, | Till some young scamp with brick Or stone will splash a little mat* And send him running homeward In quite a sorry state, Where nn angry mother. By cares of household overtried j Fo- transgressions of another, I Will tan his little hide. 1 All vou who, in your childhood, May have heaved a splashing brick. The woes of these poor children Must touch you to the quick So join in our petition That our councillors when they meet Will do something for the children I And near-swimmers in our street —“DRAINLESS”'