BRITISH TRIBUNAL SMILES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 84, 28 April 1916, Page 2

BRITISH TRIBUNAL SMILES.

"I would rather join on March 31 than on April 1." "Tombstones will wait until after the war.

My hands and ears will lose their sensitiveness": A musician. "My mother will be left alone." f 'So will many ivives."

The Board of Agriculture thinks he wouid be more useful raising pigs": Tribunal member on manager of prize pig herd. "There is too much moneji to deal with. Not another man can do the work."

"Ho (aged 20) is indispensable.'' "Another youthful genius." A brewery company at Bradford applied for the exemption of an electrician whose principal business is "to chill beer." The man was told he would be letter employed chilling Germans than chilling beer.

A Wadsley Bridge (Sheffield) doctor claimed total exemption for his motordriver on the ground that if be cinP.o.ved a woman driver "ncople, would talk." One week's grace." A man claimed for exemption because 'the coming air raids -would upset his nervous mother."