Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 August 1948, Page 4

Oddments

A correspondent writes: “Was there any humour intended in advertising 3ZR’s session last evening at 7.30 p.m. as ‘We’re Asking You?', when I listened in for one and three-quarter hours to Mr S. G. Holland’s criticism of the exchange cut?”

You have been warned. —Newspapers with their restricted space cannot publish all the news. But busy editors are apt to be brusque with readers who ring up after breakfast and ask if anything else hap-pened.—-Punch, London. # <: v -T

Few people would suspect, from Mr Shinwell’s speeches that he has more than his share of humour and philosophy. He told this story the other day to illustrate the natural decorum which ordinary people observe even in unusual circumstances. A man called to see his friend Bill, but the wife said he had gone away for a .week’s holiday. One week later the man called again and asked if Bill were in. “Yes, he’s in,” said the wife, “but he’s dead.” “Dear, dear,” said the man, “can I see him?” The woman led him upstairs and 1 there in his coffin was Bill. “He looks quite brown, doesn't he? said the man. She nodded. “Yes. His holiday did him good.”—Beverley Baxter, M.P. —-The Seeker