SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 22 December 1950, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

PETROL “POORLY" AGAIN, Mum was planning a bigger, brighter Christmas, something above the biscuits, cheese and beer level. Now petrol’s gone up again, she's come back tc earth. "This Christmas, like the last and the one before that, will be bl!*.e and beer,” she said. And, as good as her word, she rang her motor-car salesman: "You can take my name off the priority list for cars (it was 201st). My bike is not available as a trade in!" And the man next door mumbled and grumbled over the back fence: “Petrol’s gone up again, and me beer’s been cut. It’s a terrible world' They increase the nrice of things, but it is the beer drinker who always pays. He's got to go without.” A LONG TIME AWAY Seventy-two year old Tom Gibson arrived back the other day in Australia, and he told the Customs that he was returning to his native land after being on active service in the Boer War—The Boer War, mind you! He left the Continent, of Racing an Rabbits for Soulh Africa with the Mounted Rifles in 1901. He had always Intended to come back, but didn’t till this week. We suppose that he was able to sing, as do the Wanganui South African Veterans: Sure mv life felt far too stringent, So I joined the First Contingent, Found a friend in Kmeline, The day we entered Blomfontein, Mo. along with Bill O’Mayo, Whom I met in Bulawayo. It was he I left my baby with, When I rode on to Ladysmith. A’ais for me and Emeline He took her back to Blomfontein, Put glory bo, I had m ,T fling. When a'riding into Mafeklng.