Sign Of The Times
p. 11 · Read in the full issue
ON a table labelled “Useful Kitchen Oddments.” in one of Sydney’s biggest departmental stores, and surrounded by vegetable graters, egg whisks, pie-dishes and potato-neelers. is a stack of black-iron prospecting dishes, complete even to the “ripples” half way round the edge.
Experimentallv—and expecting to be soat upon—l asked the brassy female in charge of the table what thev were. Her reactions were sound; “Wash-up dishes, of course! What do they look like? 3/9 each!”
No romance for those dishes—just plain utility. Gold has its limitations—but dish-washing goes on for ever, more’s the pity.—J.T.
Under the mango trees which have shaded and adorned the Brothers School at Papeete, Tahiti, for 80 years, there assembled on Mav 30 a gathering of citi zens—many of them distinguished ex nupils of the school—to witness a very fine display of gymnastic exercises, organised and arranged by the present teachers and pupils. Among the guests was the Catholic Bishop of Tahiti, Mon seigneur Paul Maze, who has been a resi dent of Tahiti for 35 years. The func tion resulted in 50,000 francs being col lected for educational purposes.