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Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 338, 7 August 1914, Page 5

?A correspondent —“ Citizen ”

;—"Permit me per your columns to express appreciation of the generosity which prompted the local football club to so liberally respond to the school committee's request that they should do something to assist the. technical school funds.., Their decision to give to-morrow's " gate " for the purpose is highly commendable. I trust that the general public will attend in large numbers to-morrow at Bockett's paddock to witness the game against the Auckland team, who may be expected to give a good exposition. With the watersupply ceremony preceding, a large crowd should greet the local boys and their guests."

A correspondent "Wowser" writes, and very rightly too, that when "a party of scatt'erbrains should make such a sacred subject as wa- 'he theme of their wit it is time that all sobeiminded men cried anathema upon them." He goes on to refer to an incident that occurred, at the Te Awamutu Club, on which occasion the joksters; had a merry time for several hours by spreading bogus reports and then watching the results upon their unsuspecting though naturally trusting "victims."' Our correspondent continues: —.' "lean place, my finger on the* ringleader.. • While we are not a.: military community I think there: are enough of us who understand ■ the procedure to hold a Court. Martial, and it is becoming that we should hold one." And so we should. It is surprising that men of mature age should stoop to such a dastardly act at such a time as this. They should remember that everybody may not be born humorists (?) as they are. They should pardon other people's obtuseness if they fail to see the point of their collossal wit and humour.