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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1938, Page 6

‘•The most irritating person I know.” says a writer, “is the moderately successful business man who puts on airs.” What about the office boy who whistles them? Tommy (to mother standing on pier): “What’s that there, ma?” Mother: “A lighthouse.” “What for. ma?” “It keeps ships from getting on the rocks.” “Well, why don’t you get one for father?” We read that a man who had been to a fancy-dress ball attired as a milkman was stopped and questioned outside his home by a constable. He had aroused tiie officer's suspicions by closing the gate without banging it.