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Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 54

It is usually harder to get out of a fix than get into one (remarks an exchange). The other day a telegram was received in a newspaper office addressed to a member of the literary staff, who was absent on his half-holiday. The obliging chief reporter telephoned to his home with the intention of asking the addressee if he should open it and apprise him of the contents. His colleague was not at home, however, and his wife answered the telephone. “ Yes, open it by all means, and I’ll take the message.” she said; The chief reporter opened the telegram, read the message, which was signed by a lady, and turned pale. “It says—er-er —that is, they want —erahem —-they want your husband to accept the vice-presidency of the Journalists’ Association.” The reporter banged the receiver down and mopped the moisture from his brow. “Whew! That was a close shave.”-he confided to the typiste. “ A church should be built to provide seating accommodation for a congregation a third larger than usual,” was the remark passed by the Rev. A. G. Irvine at the forty-ninth annual meeting of members and adherents of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on a recent evening (says the Ashburton Guardian). A discussion was in progress on the lack of seating accommodation in the church, and it was proposed to reconstruct a portion of the church to enable a further 100 seats to be installed. The remark was passed in reply to a member who said that if these alterations were made it would mean that there would be an additional 100 sears to be filled in the evening, when the attendance was smaller than in the morning.