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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 3

A good' laugh was obtained by Dr. C. E 'Booby, assistant-Diroelor o! Education, at flic expense of the girls'll the annual prize-giving ceremom at the -Hastings High School. Dr Booby was cpioting extracts from n

book, the dialogue -being that of some small -children criticising their elders, and- the talk turned towards the youngsters picking faults with one another’s parents in their efforts to define the meaning of growing-up.

“Your mother's no lady; she lias her logs crossed,” read the doctor, and immediately there was a shuffle as a number of girls and several of the women in the* audience -oontaneously uncrossed their legs. Then followed a general bur-sit of laughter, with many blushing faces, as it was realised how neatly the speaker had trapped them,