The CRITIC

NZ Truth, Issue 1233, 18 July 1929, Page 6

The CRITIC

PARLIAMENT is said to cost the * country £1 a minute. Dear, dear! #■ # • A : HINDU greengrocer was prosecuted ** for placing small onions under a top layer of large ones. He knew his onions! #* • # TN some cases the "C.0.D." system has •*• proved to be the . "caught-on-delivery" system! »* . ♦ THE patient who had a molar extracted reckons that dentists witness many painful partings. ••f ■ * THOSE bustling busy-bodies who are •*■ fond of . shaking things up should try a spell at Murchison. # * # AN apiarist who Avas stung by a bee rt .was compelled to consult a doctor. Then he got sturig f or a fee! ## * . THE convicts m our gaols do not ■ subscribe to the dictum that Time is the great healer. # * #

THERE will be no peace until we get V a lady Prime Minister, says a writer. Nor after! 1 > • ■ '. # ■ *. T")EATH is on your track, warns a cleric. These motors again. ,-■■■•' # * A MAN used to, gain money by slipping...on banana skins and claimr ing damages. The banana split. •. • • TWIN sisters married twin brothers jf and all are now divorced. They even agreed to be alike. • # # W7HY not reach for the Bible instead " of a smoke, asks a writer? Why not both? V, :*# # . ' THE Turks are complaining about the American talkies. They will be unintelligible, of course. • * # CVEN the deaf enjoy the talkies, says a writer.. Probably more so. * * * THE Desert Song. He' Mustapha camel ! .'' • # • LIENRY HULL, is an actor. The * "hull" show m fact. * # * DEFORE joining a club m England members must take an oath to speak well of people or remain silent. There are no women members. •■ ■ • ' 4 '• THEY say women should only be seen and heard on the domestic hearth. But voices carry. ■' * .■.#.' * , A WRITER says lie refuses to regard the people of America as a holy people. Bullet hole (ly) perhaps. # # *• A WRITER says sleep is a lazy habit. ,But a good one.