26 APRIL 1945, Page 9

LONG AGO (After Francis Thompson)

IT is little I expect from the efforts of the planning folk,

Though my own were included in the show ; It is little I expect from the efforts of the planning folk,

Though they meant well and promised much, I know. For the Royal Commission fades in the memory of most, And a ghostly chairman yawns at the witness of a ghost, And I look through my tears at a homeless-homing host

As the politicians waver to and fro, To and fro:.

0 my Uthwatt and my Barlow long ago!

F. J. O.