PRACTICAL JOKES

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2818, 5 October 1938, Page 6

PRACTICAL JOKES

REVELLERS IN VILLAGE CONFUSION AND CHAO’S Milkmen and the postman making their early morning rounds to-day at Saundersfoot, a pretty seaside resort four miles from Narberth (Pembrokeshire), found the village was the victim of a practical joke on an unprecedented scale. Gates of the houses had been changed about: “To Let” notices had been taken from outside empty houses and placed in front of hotels. Signposts were reversed; “pure ices” notices fixed on all the public

watertaps. Canoes had been carried on to the footpaths; motor cars moved from one end of the village to the other; public seats hauled to the forks of trees.

Residents later found that garden gates had been carried off and left on the rocks on the beach.

Damage and confusion were caused everywhere and the villagers are incensed.

! Midnight revellers are suspected, i but there is no clue to their identity. | Oxford and Cambridge have been i scenes of two notable practical jokes. I Sixteen years ago, an undergraduate fooled both dons and students at Ox- ! ford by giving a lecture as Dr. Emil J Busch, a phycho-analyst, of Vienna. j Professor Armstrong Gibbs recently I confessed that when at Cambridge he ’ and some friends held a spoof art ! show. They painted 174 pictures ; themselves, charged sixpence for admission, paid all their expenses, sold £2O worth of pictures and 1 paid out j £25 to the hospital.