SIDELIGHTS ON ELECTION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 108, 20 February 1950, Page 3

SIDELIGHTS ON ELECTION

TOMATO TARGET ROLE FOR STUDENTS (N.Z.P.A.-Copyright) ( (Rec. 11.35) LONDON, Feb. 19. When the rest of the General Election results are known, electors will still be waiting the next week-end to hear what happened in Britain’s most northerly constituency, Orkney and Shetland. A fleet of motor-boats and ' small steamers will cross stormy seas to bring the ballot boxes from remote villages to the Orkney County town of Kirkwall, and a special plane will be used in other areas. v

Disappointed voters at Reading. Berkshire, will have a chance to give vent to their feelings next Saturday with rotten tomatoes. Reading University students will stand in public places as the representatives of the chief political parties and be pelted. The tomatoes are to be sold to the public and the proceeds given to charity.

A university spokesman said the students would “work in shifts so that no one has too bad a time.”

The “Daily Telegraph” reports that last Friday a Cardiff Corporation bus driver was stopped a day’s pay for displaying Mr Churchill’s picture <sn his vehicle. The following day a Cardiff tobacconist put a “sympathy box” on the counter, and in a few hours had collected £3 sterling fcr the driver. When Mr Herbert; Morrison spoke at Chatham’s Empire Theatre to-night, he had to compete for one hour against the roars of a lion and lioness in cages behind the stage. Animal trainers tried in vain to quieten them. Mr Morrison finished his speech amid cheers and applause in spite of difficulty occasionally in being heard at all.

The circus stage director explained that every time the lion Bimbo hears clapping he thinks he is the next turn and always roars his loudest.'