SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 November 1950, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

WH'.’ WORRY? Mr. Arthur Helliwell, who is jolly well making a hang of a tirade about this “hell-ol'-a" place New Zealand, says that we suffer front a disease called toe much sport, and racing isThe worst symptom of that disease. Won’t somebody please tell him that these are the Totalisator Isles? We've know that for years, and years and years' We’re game to bet that although Mr. Arthur Helliwell is now writing to his paper about it, the “tote’’ figures next week will be better than they were last year at the same time, and that he should stop and see what happens at Christmas and New Year. Arthur hasn’t seen anything yet. in the Totalisator Isles. The "tote" figures are rising, Christchurch docs look like England and Wellington may still envy Auckland and vice versa —so what? Is the world so pure that we must have the finger of scorn pointea at us, the Totalisator Isles! NOT THAT FOND OF VEGETABLES'. Stewart has always been in a hurry at the last minute to avoid being late for school, but he has good reason to remember the day he dashed into the kitchen lor his lunch. Mum had put his lunch up in two parcels—biscuits Jin (he one, sandw.ches in the other! Stewart grabbed the two parcels he saw on tile kitchen bench, dashed to school, spent the morning learning about the Ihree • R’s," or whatever it is schools teach, and then, had a go at , hit lund.. First hand into a bag camo out 0.K., a biscuit. But the hand that went into t. e other bag came out anything but all right. It came holding an onion! There were a number of Taranaki's best-grown brown Spanish i in the bag. instead of sandwiches! j “I'm not that fond of vegetables." he I said. "In any case, Mum ought to j know her meals better th ;n that. It's I biscuits and cheese, not biscuits and I onions,” he said, and went away and I got one of Taranaki's best pasties and booked it up to Mum and D id! When Stewart came home his parcel of sandwiches was .still reposing on the bench. Point now is, who pays for the paslie, Mura or Stewart?