SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 December 1950, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

THE RAILWAY STRIKE. “Last, loneliest, exquisite, apart,” the Auckland railwaymen are adheri ing to what Kipling said of their city [ —they, and they alone, are going ouz . on strike! We know one railwayman , here in Wanganui who is sending them up a red carnation—we said “carnation,” not “incarnation.” C'OPYRIGHT COMPLEX. People who play programmes on 1 the radio “music while you work” ses- ’ sions, are to be charged a copyright ’ lee. It is maintained that the playing ' of music in factories constitutes a : public performance, so, presumably, they will be collecting two copyright fees for the same playing—one which the broadcasting people will pay out of the taxpayers’ pockets and another fee got cut of the pockets of the 'workers who listen, or from the employer in whose factory the radio is installed. But what we want to know is, will playing the radio in a cowbai! constitute a public performance when there is Mum, Dad, 50 cows and a bull to listen in? If such is deemed .a public performance then we are afraid that the “music while you work” days are over. ALIVE, ALIVE O’. NO, VERY DEAD! A well-known Wanganui dentist of Irish descent let fall that he wanted some goldfish. A prominent refrigeration engineer decided that one of Irish descent should be helped. They were clearing out some pools and some dead fish developed. A builder of Scottish descent kindly offered to act as a “taxi driver’’ and deliver the fish. He walked proudly up to the Irish dentist’s house and told the dentist’s wife that he was a taximan, and lhe engineer bad sent the fish the dentist, had ordered. The “taxi driver” hurried atvav while the wife was calling the dentist up from the depths of ; th? "?rdcn to come and get “the goldPsh” he had ordered. Five or six dead (’sh w?r? in the package. If ever a Scottish builder and a certain engineer of a refrigeration works has the toothache, they would find it wise to keen clear of a certain dentist whose sneetitors come from near where Klllarney spreads its spangles against the . !i'”?'r''cks carpeted around about. And v. hen pecpln want fish th?y should be raresii io snenifv whether they want fish dead, or fish alive!