" WHERE THE PLAY IS NOW "

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 2, 11 December 1943, Page 9

" WHERE THE PLAY IS NOW "

M & V and Oration biscuts to make on® They heartily agreed with this view?, -over having boon soldiers themselves. AND as Gordon Hutter says from I .YA - ” That’s where the pfc&y is now • < mi it it ii it ti ii

( Writin specially for Doze rdust J3y> t LOWDOWN.) WHAT’S all this talk about who started butter rationing. I star * ted it myself. ::: IT was just after I cleaned up that Rotorua business and got the lowdown on that crook sleuth that the big • shots had appointed to track down the crooks who claimed they were going to assassinate Bob and Dan. THEY were all pretty grateful over that show and wanted to put me in the Upper House, but i wasn’t interested. I think I could even have boon a“& 4 *vi Sed. if X had wanted, but as i told them, I only wanted to do another job to rotate my adopted country®::: THEY all came crowding round me when I got tha t'one off my chest and patted me on the back, and Paddy said he would be prepared to o take his ifet off 6 to me anytime. I know they; were with me then.::: WELL the up* shot was that we had a conference® Walter wanted me to take on a tour to sell Rehabilitation and. Housing to the country, but I didn’t go much on the idea. I pointed out that the great mass of voters is like a horse and can only think of one thing ata time What was wanted was something to really rotate the public and then Walter ? could please himself about Housing and all that while the public was too mad to notice.::: THERE wereseveral ideas put up. Coal rationing, Lower Rents Beer Tax, Tote Tax, but they all seemed to affect somebody present so they weren’t well received. ::: I let them all talk for awhile then X sprung it on them* Butter Rationing® They didn’t think much of the idea at first till 1 pointed but that it rotated everybody - women, kids and all. Paddy thought there would be some opposition from the big unions and I agreed, but I pointed out that when they started to squeal he could always come out with ths usual line that they had no intention of being stampeded by anybody and,anyway, the question was still under review. :* 1 pointed out too, that they could easily take butter away from the Axmy as the soldiers had more than they knew what to do with® I told them it was the usual thing for soldiers to open a large tin, dig their knife in just once and then throw the rest away. It wqs Wong, 1 said, for mere soldiers to get as much butter ns wharfies, jCokeys and other shock troops of the war Effort when tho said soldiers had.