THE WEST DECK SAYS

Dit-Dah, Volume 2, Issue 5, 27 January 1940, Page 1

THE WEST DECK SAYS

Wo hear ebrae of our poets have been working on the words of a song for Div. Sigs. Results., please .’. . . The laugh of the week, we are told, is on one '-Signalman (he is really too valuable to have been made a corporal). When they wanted a GOOD signaller to stay on ...the bridge at"Fremantle , they took his word 'or it and gave him the job... It’s getting so you can’t even count sheen in your sleep without coms bawling ,s Housy 5” in your ear.... And still on the subject of ”Hov.sy-Houay w ; After reading Ship’s Routine Orders, some of us have been thinking that the veal name of the game is ’'Monopoly . ... After the job we made of the patches, we’ve been considering asking the Walkikamukau Women’s Sewing Circle about affiliating with 2 RZ Div Sigs — or vice versa.... I was talking last night to the Hammoc King, And he confided in me That he wished all the hummocks Were down in the depths of the sea. And then he said, "It’s a flamin’ nark; They’ll be late For a cert... And I’ve lost my voice •• I can only bark, And they think my name Is dirt.” j. q •; 1 ... u o And I replied (Smiling wide): ”’Twill do no good to fight - To beat the rap - My dear old chap; For I believe They’re RIGHT !" — y.N.A.

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