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Obvious. “Obviously,” says Mr Arthur Calwell, Australian Labour Minister of Immigration, “Mr Winston Churchill is not interested in the future of ■ the British Empire as a whole.” Don’t be so belated, Mr Calwell. It was obvious at Dunkirk.
What’s this nonsense about virtue in work? If you win £12,000 in the State Lottery you get it tax free. If you tried to net that amount from personal exertion you would have to be paid £43,633 —and that would take some personal exertion, believe me.—Column Eight, Sydney Morning Herald. * '■!= S: * * Some visitors from South Africa went to see the country up the main northern road of New South Wales —one of the State’s tourist resorts. They stayed at Glen jnnes and wanted an early breakfast. But, realising the staff difficulties, decided not to ask for it, but to be at the table as soon as breakfast was served. Actually they were seated two minutes before the bell went. But they got served last. When they asked why, when they were in first they were not served first, the waitress said, acidly: “Yes, you were first in, but you came in before the bell.” —-The Seeker
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1947, Page 6
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