“People here make jokes about anything,” writes an Auckland young led’’ now visiting England, when describing conditions in London during the war scare, which was at its height three or four weeks ago. She repeats one current at the time: An old lady was called upon by a volunteer who was bringing her a gas mask. The old lady shook her head, and said: “No, thank you; I’m not wanting one, thank you. I had electricity put in last week.” She apparently thought the volunteer was selling them like vacuum cleaners! Another anecdote tells of a man who wouldn’t get a gas mask because, he said, he was “neutral.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 57, Issue 4116, 26 October 1938, Page 6
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