OUR AGENT WILL CALL

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27914, 10 March 1956, Page 8

OUR AGENT WILL CALL

[By WHIM WHAM] Increase of 40 per cent, in New Zealand’s annual exports to Australia ... 21 million board feet of timber . . . 10,000 tons of newsprint . . . fish exports by as much as £. 240,000 . . —Expected outcome of Mr Holland’s mission. POLONIUS. Do you know me, my lord? HAMLET. Excellent well, you are a fishmonger. Will That be All for today, Mr Menzies? Beautiful Timber, the best that grows! Another ten million Feet. Mr Menzies? Buy what you can. before it goes. THANKS for the Order, Mr Menzies. 11l send it around to the Timberyard. When shall I call again. Mr Menzies? Glad to have seen you—here’s my Card. Oh, just ONE other Thing, Mr Menzies’ Something to do with the Price of Fish. Seafood Sid's your Man, Mr Menzies— Guts them, fillets them, as you wish. What’s for Friday next, Mr Menzies? Terakihi? Flounder? Groper? Snapper?— Oysters and Crays fresh in, Mr Menzies— Or just plain Fish in a plain Wrapper? And while we’re wrapping it, that reminds me— What about Newsprint? Don’t you feel Fish needs Newspapers. Mr Menzies? Ten thousand tons, shall we say? It’s a Deal! Fish and Chips are a Treat, Mr Menzies. The Chips, by the way, we expect when due. And on Paper it all looks fine, Mr Menzies. Shake on it, shall we?—b’SEEing You!