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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 118, 21 May 1932, Page 8 (Supplement)

More boys than girls were born in I Britain in the first quarter of last year. There were 81,881 boys and 77,939 girls. “Alan oxerboard!” was the cry. • “Gen.t’emnn overboard, if you please.” j said Airs. Proude. “That’s my bus-i band. ’ Treat for Father. For long the Jones household had been the home uf a varied assortment of birds, animals, and fish, not forgetting a tortoise, but Airs. Jones 1 grew tired of the menagerie and decided to get rid of it. Fido was sent to a dog’s home an • 1 Fluff to an institute for cats. Tl.a parrot, was sent to the Association for the Preservation of Pure Language, and the two canaries to the Deaf and Dumb Home. The others were got rid of in various ways, but whtfr. she came to the goldfish she hesitated. Tommy, however, had a bright sug gest ion. “Why not fry it for farher’s. breakfast?” he said. “He’s been asking for a change for weeks.”