Overheard when the cream vans were delivering cans over the stage at a Southland dairy factory the other day.
'“Wjetel, Jock, an’ hoo’s the world treating ye? ”
“ Not a bit, Sandy. I have to pay for everything mysel’.”
The stationmaster on the Indian railway had been given strict orders not to do anything out of the ordinary without authority from the superintendent. This accounts for him sending the following telegram the other day. “ Superintendent’s Office, Calcutta: Tiger oh platform eating guard. Please' •Wife instructions.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 51, Issue 3645, 19 July 1935, Page 8
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