RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30953, 8 January 1966, Page 32

RANDOM REMINDER

AFTER

For the last week or two, most of you have been dining off left-overs, or if you haven’t, you’ve been thoroughly spoiled. At all events, that’s what we’re having today—some bits and pieces which could conceivably meet immediate needs. Like the traffic officer who accepted a ride as a pillion passenger and therefore also accepted, the report said, a certain amount of risk, but which should not have included being bitten by the driver. And there was the matter of Government pigeon holes, which are to be ira-

proved. Without looking up the reference, one can only assume that they are going to be made larger. Did you know that when setting up a picket fence you’re liable to have to drive a nail about 140 yards? Well, that is if you work it out that a fence of 500 pickets—which is what a friend of ours had to do — requires four 2} inch nails per picket. Knock knock, and who cares? In Whakatane an elderly Maori woman asked for a pain bangle. This, it transpired, was a copper bangle. She said she was going to

bury it for 12 days then dig it up and wear it on the outside. This remains a problem for the unanswered questions department Nearer home—Prebbleton —the head of a very successful racing family suffered the perfect squelch recently. His son said that he would like, for his twenty-first birthday, a horse. His father was a little startled, but secretly pleased, on the chip-off-the-old-block basis. His son then added: “And when it wins and makes a lot of money. I’ll sell it and buy a decent horse!”