DEPARTMENTAL STYLE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 7, 14 February 1907, Page 37

DEPARTMENTAL STYLE

In one of the lesser Indian cities the clerk, in charge of the official documents is a Hindu, with a peculiar knowledge of English. - , A As rats did much damage to- -his- papers -foe obtained permission to keep two " cats, the • larger^ of them receiving rather better rations. A few weeks later the head office at Calcutta^ received this dis•l have the honor to inform you that the senior cat is absent without leave. What shall I. do?' A ,. To this telegram there was vouchsafed no answer. After waiting a few days the Hindu sent off a proPOS 3,1 !™— mninJ n n r +° ' &h f l^ ee ° at - 1 propose to promote -the junior cat, and in the meantime to take into government sendee a probationer cat on full rations "'