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Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 51, 28 August 1915, Page 24

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Z.B. —No trace. A.B. —'Many thanks. Emile—Will enquire. Ig7o.—Ancient history. Vie.—Of no public interest. O.G.T.R.—Regretfully declined. Dot. Sent to the stake and burned. O.S.R.—Too long, too dull, too pedantic. Lex. —An advertisement skilfully disguised as "news." 0.0. —We have often read better verse, but seldom worse verse. T.S. —Your facte Lack accuracy, your writing perspicuity, and your head brains. O.F. —Impassioned appeal for recruits. It would almost convince you that it was your duty to go a-soldiering. Angels.—Compound of mysticism and religion. The office diagnostician suggests! that your complaint is dyspepsia. White Feather.—Absurd; the man you name has already lost a son killed and has one wounded. Stick to girocery—and facts. P.L.A.—You send one reason why America should take up arms for the Allies. We can give you twenty reasons why America should not. D.H.—Nonsense! All the great daily papers in New Zealand have sent many reporters to the waras soldiers. Nine have enlisted from one Auckland paper.