SGT, SAVED FROM INSANITY. WO II S. MITCHINSON ARRIVED IN TIME .

Dozerdust, Volume 2, Issue 18, 20 May 1944, Page 5

SGT, SAVED FROM INSANITY. WO II S. MITCHINSON ARRIVED IN TIME .

WE learnt this week that cur poetic Sgt,, Peter Wingfield, went into a tail spin which led him, in his own words ” to the brink oh insanity ”, when WO- ID S- Hitchinson arrived in time to .effect a brilliant save When approached on the incident Capt. W„P» Boyd. 00 of the detach- - merit, had no comment to make beyond a vague reference to ” poetyy I Ray Barnaby is thought to have lot the ” cat out of the bag ” by hinting that Peter had been reading his own\ poem’s e Having road several of Pcter f s paems, we can assure our readers that we suffer? ed no ill effects. A .reasonable explanation of the temporary lapse i (we hasten to assure our readers that the lapse was purely temporary ) from sanity ' was no more than a pas- , sing mood. At the moment 'Peter is eagerly anticipating his * return to N B Z. , and • an early departure to _thn European Front. Jt& —

u ct st :: t: n k u tt ” KANAKA ' JEWELLER j \ T in: Paterson** Kane has joined the ” NdOiiili Nu mb skbl 1s ‘ ”, Alan Mattbiws, Rupert Robbie.& No rr. ivJh 11 he -an Go . Effect on designs feared by old K. J’s#

THS almost superior disdain with which N. Z. and Australia looked across the Tasman at each other has always struck me as a peculair type of surburban snobbery. Separated by thousands of miles from the''home of your civilisation, having little in common with Europe, and less with the rigid customs of the old world,' you nevertheless made little of the. heritage you had in common; you rarely pooled your experience on Pacific affairs, and you gabs thought to your Pacific neighbowtiß . To an outsider, such isolation is difficult to understand, and it was so deeprooted that it took a world war to draw you together.

WHAT OF TOMORROW ? IT is interesting .to speculate bn the extent to which you will cooper ate in matters of mutual interest in the future. One does not have to be an expert in power politics to know that the Hew Zealand and Australia that emerge from this war will be far removed from what they were in the pre-war days, Your isolation is gone. The rise of the Asiatic poop 1 le across the Pacific should indicate to you that the world your children will inherit will be much more difficult and complex thav& it was in 1939* You will find that Social Security legislation & the 40 hour week,important as they.,have been, will have to take second place to far bigger que-l tions.