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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 1100, 26 October 1926, Page 1

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Magistrate: When you arrested him what wag he doing 1 Constable : He was having a heated argument with a taxi driver, yer Worship.

Magistrate : But that doesn't prove ho was intoxicated. Constable : But there was no taxi rl river, sir. Bpc«kinfi; at the Wellington Chamber of Commerce .luncheon, Mr D. C Bates said a story had gone the rounds, but it was not t'-ue, that a student once n.«,ked Mis.< Kates, his daughter, a question about tlie weather. Not being able to give the information, tho retort came : But your, father is the weather prophet. Yes, his daughter was said to have replied, t>ut wt» ciont go by father ; we go by mother's corns. ' v s