SLOGANS FOR SPOUSES A popular novelty, according to the newspapers, is to have engraved on your wedding ring an inscription appropriate to your occupation; thus airmen are reported to have chosen "Happy Landings!" : sailors, "Jack's the boy!" etc. New Statesman competitors were asked for inscriptions suitable for such occupations as airraid Avarden, 8.8.C. announcer, and? so on. Here are a few of their suggestions : Air-raid Warden: To Bed with My Siren. Buchmanite: All this and Heaver* too. . Parachutist: Date with an AngelWar Office Major: True to Tape. Butcher; Unralioned Bliss. Mass Observer: Snoop to Conquer. BBC Announcer: Accents will Happen. . Fifth Columnist: For Richer, for Fuehrer. Popular Novelist: Owner of sole reproduction rights. ;
BANISH fat fast or slow. Just follow instructions on Bonkora packet. From F. G. Macklow, Chemist* Whakatane.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 80, 20 July 1942, Page 5
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130Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 80, 20 July 1942, Page 5
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