• Sir Edward Benthall, Transport Member, admitted in a speech that for the sake of economising in electric consumption, bulbs in the bathrooms had been removed. Sri Prakasa asked: “Is not light more necessary in bathrooms than in bedrooms?”...

• The relations between Burma and India regarding residential rights are still strained, but there is now hope in the fact that the Governor-General of India is Lord Mountbatten of Burma.

• The Governor-General we have is so sporting by nature that he would have been ready to accept the offer of his office by phone instead of letting the President and the Premier call on him at midnight. Lord Mountbatten afterwards probably recalled the occasion which prompted Elizabeth Barrett Browning to begin a poem apostrophising his ancestress: “God bless thee, Weeping Queen.”

• Young folk fond of cricket-sensation were stumped by the news that Merchant was not going to Australia just when they almost regarded the tricolour design of the national flag as emblematic of the hat-trick with a painted ball in the centre.

• A discussion was in progress at the local inn on the value of education. One man stressed the importance of a good education, and said that everyone was at a disadvantage without it. “Well I dunno,” replied an old man. “I’m no addicated at all, an’ it seems to me that when ye’re no addicated, ye just have tae use your brains.”