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The New South Wales Postal Workers’ Union wants the Post and Telegraph Act amended so that delivery can be stopped to people whose dogs bite the postman. The department’s against it and has decided to give limited local discretion instead of making one rigid rule to cover all cases. * * * * «S I shouldn’t mind seeing horses other people had picked out with a pin Win If it weren’t that my own carefully thought-out system Missed ’em. —Punch, London. S: S: si: # » A pedestrian had fallen into a manhole and called for help. “Dear me,” said a gentleman who happened along. “Have you fallen into that manhole?” “Not at all,” was the reply. “As you seem interested I will say that I just happened to be down here and they built the pavement around me.” — Milwaukee Journal. * * si: $ .$• A young husband was recently playfully questioning his wife on her oast. “Tell me truly,” he said, “did any other man ever kiss you?” “Well,” was the reply, “I was once up the river with a man and he started rocking the boat, at the same time exclaiming, ‘Now, Mary, my dear, either you kiss me oi> be both drown.’ ” ■ “And did you kiss him?” gasped the husband. “Was I drowned?” asked the wife. —Welland-Port Colborne Triune. —TTze Seeker
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1949, Page 4
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216Oddments Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1949, Page 4
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