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THE PASSING SHOW
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"Ye Olde Tavern" On
Railway Wheels
LONDON, May 25: The Bri
tish railways executive intends to
put the typical English country
isn on wheels. Eight "tavern
cars" will be used this summer on
express services in two regions.
Inn signs will identify them as
"The White Horse," "The Jolly
Tar," "The Dolphin," "The Three
Plovers," "The Bull," "The Salu
tation," 'The Green Man," and
"The Crown."
The ouitside of each car will be
painted to represent the brick
work and cream panelling of "the
local." The interiors will have
rough-surfaced whitewashed walls
and ceilings with dark oak beams.
Dark oak settees and tables will
be placed against the walls. From
the ceiling beams will hang square
metal lanterns. The floor cover
ing will imitate the old black and
red tiling of the country inn. At
the far end of the tavern will be
a modern cocktail bar and a
snack counter.-Reuters.
Kangaroo Scratched
Its Whiskers
MELBOURNE, May 25: A
farmer from Moyston (near
Ararat) had a shock recently
when he went to feed his fowls
he found six emus and five kan
garoos with the flock. As a re
sult, the Graziers' Association
will ask the Fisheries and Games
Department for a three-month
open season on kangaroos.
The farmer, Mr. T. C. Maid
ment, said today that on another
day a kangaroo hopped into his
front garden. When he shouted
at it, the 'roo merely scratched
its whiskers. "Then I set the dog
on it," said Mr. Maidment. "The
kangaroo caught hold of the dog
and threw it i the dam."
Free Trips
MELBOURNE, May 25: Three
men who stowed away on the
migrant ship Wooster Victory and
were sent back to Italy waved
happily as they returbed to Mel
bourne today on the latest trip of
the ship. It was explained that
the Italian Government did not
have time to complete the formali
ties necessary for their landing
during the vessel's short stay at
Naples.
The men Luigi Brait, Victor
Sesak and Brank Mihic, will not
be allowed to enter Australia and
will sail back to Naples again.
On the last trip of the Wooster
Victory, they revealed their pre
sence as stowaways when the ship
reached Sydney. The Minister for
Immigration (Mr. Calwell) re
fused to consider their pleas for
permission to settle in Australia
on the ground that they could
not be given an unfair advantage
over Europeans who desired to
migrate through the normal chan
nels.
Shades of the Bounty
HAMBURO, May 25: About
40 German submariners who
sneaked their U-boat out of a
Norwegian port just before the
German surrender in 1945 are
now living happily on 8 South
Seas island, the newspaper
"Neiderdeutsche Zeitung" said to
day. The men bad sent a letter,
posted in Wellington, to a Ham
burg man saying that they were
now living happily with native
wives and that they did not in
tend to return until 1955.-A.P.
"It's On Fire"
Members of a social football
team got a surprise yesterday on
their way to play a match. They
had stopped at a wayside inn,
when a stranger entered and asked
calmly whether the owner of the
car parked outside was present.
Thinking that the car might have
been parked in the wronp place,
the owner promptly replied that
it was his. The stranger then
said laconically, "Well-it's on
fire." The bar emptied quickly
and it was found that the team's
football guernseys had caught fire
in the back of the car.
Death Song
CHRISTCHURCH, May 25:
While a girl aged about 18 was
singing at the Christchurch
musical festival her- mother
sat dying .in the audience a few
seats from the stage. When Mrs.
IL F. Ford collapsed her daugh
ter Beryl, in the vocal scholar
ship class, saw the incident but
courageously continued, not think
ing that her mother was near
death. Mrs. Ford was rushed to
hospital but was dead on arrival.
-A.A.P.-Reuters.
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