ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
"A.V.P " Petone.— Try again,. "P.N." Sydenham.— The vacancy is filled. "Jim Sing Lee.'"— You are -quite right Jim, but we are not Prohibitionists, and admit it. ' ' Wellesley Club . "—lt might bo all "God's Truth," as you say, but can you or anyone else prove it. "Wawr," Picton.— Yours is about . the 19th letter we have had asking the same absurd question. A man looking at a phiotoigraph said, "Sisters and brothers, have I none, but" that man's father is niy father's son." Who's photo is he looking at? We gave the office f boy a day off, and he worked .it out by algebra or double entry, or something, as follows : He (the man looking at the photo) being a son of hiis father, is therefore his father's son, and as he is , the; other man's (the man m the photo) father, the man of the photo is his sotrt. He is therefore" looking at. a picture of his own son. . If you can't follow it this way, put your son's picture on the mantel piece, and repeat the rhyme to it, and it will come to you quite simple: * We trust that the next individual who wants an answer to a •question of this sort, will oall m person, and we will introduce him to our specially prepared jagged-edged nieat axe. j
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NZ Truth, Issue 102, 1 June 1907, Page 4
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226ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NZ Truth, Issue 102, 1 June 1907, Page 4
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