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ONE of th' qguests
S returning f r-o rr
the weekend,. Rum
- Jungle shows seem.s
able to say for?ertain
,- why Jdck White ,.Idis
coverer of the :-first
major urbnriums deposit
in .the Northern Terri
tory, failed to turn uF
at the festivities.
SBut, our Canberra man
tells me today, some of the
pilgrims returiiing to' Can
berra have' a theory.
They're saying that an
ofmlcial invitation Was' sent
to Jack White. -but Jack
was more impressed by the
warning of. his mates that
he woulc have to wear tolp
hat and striped trousers
and sit, on a platform -be
side' the Prime M\inister.
So Jack. who is a modest
and retiring Australian,
promptly "shot through"
to Adelaide River.
*-The swans
QOUTH Melboarne foot
" ,ballers in town for to
morrow, night's . match
against Sturt, bear the
graceful nickname of 'The
Swans" - because their
groun, is near Albert
Park Lake,
It wasn't quite iso grace
ful in the old days.
Then they were
"Skinner's . Blood-Stained
Angels"-a combination of
the name of their presi
dent, a local hotelkeeper,
and their red-and-white
colors.
.Lottery
SOUTH Australia is now
the only Statbe without
a lottery and, if you can
take a hint from .the
Premier; is not likely. to
have one in a hiurry.
In d smiling .aside at the
Prince Alfred Old Colle
Sglans' luncheon .,yesterday,.
Mr. Playford- said: .
"South Australia is en
joying the best living of
Sany Statein Australia
and that is in spite of the
fact that we have not got
a Tattersall here."
Which tends to suggest
that life here is not such
a lottery, after all..
* -They're ?een
OtUR league football
Ssemi-final on Adelaide
Oval on Saturday drew an
attehdance of 30,486
something under' 10 per
cent. of the population in
the' metropolitan area.
SCompare that . with the
Wimmera .League grand
final, played at Horsl. m
(Vic.) on Satur,-..y.
Minyip (popuIlaion 700)
played Jeparit (population
500, and, incidentally the
Prime * Minister's home
town)-and 14,000 people
paid £2,100 .'to see the
match. ,'
No politics, please, but
Mnlyip beat Jepar!lt
* Crowds
SNO another compari
son ..
At our owi "little 'Farn
borough". at Mallala "1
Sunday, they packed in a
crowd of upwards of 30,000.
Road traffic was never so
dense.
Today from the Society
of British Aircraft Con
struction I have received
official figures about the
real thing-Farnborough's
British Aircraft Show on
the previous Sunday.
They had a record crowd
of 160,000, who arrived in
20,900 vehicles, incltiding a
mammoth fleet of 1,700
motor coaches -'
'At the peak tratfleperiod
2,581 cars, 1,230 motor
cycles, 435 bicycles, and 600
coaches were reaching
Farinborough : :. aeroPdrome
every. hour.. : ,
* Cores and ffject
* SUBU!I.AN ratepayer
watched the crew on
board the local council's
garbage truck munching
away happily at apples
the Ather day.
What mnadet all so odd
to her was that, wi n
they'd finished, they tossed
'the cores out on the road
I way.
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