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Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 13, 5 December 1914, Page 24

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P.B. —Many thanks. E.F.H.— Sorry ; no iise. N.O.—Will use. Thanks. Wai— Only as an advertisement. Z P —Nothing to-day, thank you. Pennib.—To say the least—indisE.MoL.— Very good jingle—but why call it poetry ? a —Aeain—you must not rhym<} iW g ch place names with English •word*— artistically it is horrid. V C —The V.C. may be granted to a sailor or soldier of any rank, and, very occasionally, to women. Mother.—To make public that intimfte family matter would hit you the hardest. Get your big son to punch him. HH—Too technical. Bring your soaring genius down to the level of the average political candidate's understanding. C A B.—The story writer who makes a, Tipperary Irishman talk in Whitechapel dialect will never set the Waitemata afire. Peter.—There is distinct evidence in the leading columns of the Auckland paper you name ot belated pro-British spmpathy.. it is a curious and sudden reversion. O —Communications on which sixpence deferred postage are paid are always viewed in a hostile manner—and not read, line is not a free postage stamp bureau. p _We are not particularly interested in your decision to immediately leave for the United States when New Zealand is proclaimed a German colony." We can't prevent you going by next boat. p AT _A definition, of "victimisation." For example, three Anarchists strike, and induce 5000 others to follow suit, partially ruining the employers. Anarchists demand reinstatement by the practically ruined "boss." Boss refuses to be ruined .any more. The Anarchists are "victimised. See?