OUR LETTER BOX
GOOD OLE BILL.—O Well! ■X « • GEE WHIZ .—The business of a paper is .<Ju>t> to put matter in "but to keep matter out. '.-'■•' • ' • * 3.8>. (Papakura).—Cheer up, Joe! Permit; us to compliment you on your escape. .* * * W.S.—Hysterical Socialistic wail. Even if the hysteria were eliminated it would still be unprintable. »" • • N.P. OIL.—Oh, for goodness gracious' sake desist from your L.s.d. machinations. We see "divs" to you in every line. * • • "VERB SAP."—Would you mini asking your wife to release the bath shower on you—if she is not strong enough, we have a six-Teet boy hero. * • * * A.E.—lt is curious that you should have written to this paper. The person you might have addressed is in charge of the-Auckland City Council's destructor. ft ■• f B.C.L.—Variation of a celebrated French joke made respectable for British consumption—the kind of joke every British man will tell in the club or the pub, and which any Frenchman would print. It is only a question of national standards.
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Observer, Volume XL, Issue 17, 27 December 1919, Page 32
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162OUR LETTER BOX Observer, Volume XL, Issue 17, 27 December 1919, Page 32
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