Stationery Office’s Odd Magazines
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, April 28. I sometimes wonder who buys some of our publications,” said Sir John Simpson, Controller of the Stationery Office, commenting on “odd” magazines and pamphlets issued by the office. A pamphlet on the sex life of the elephant seal, for instance, “sold like hot cakes” on the Dogger Bank. Sir John Simpson asked who would buy a book on the horse flies of the Ethiopian region, a pocket guide to Alaska, an illustrated guide to fleas, the measurement of small holes (translated from the Russian), or “Seats for Female Shop Assistants,” yet they all sold well.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 10
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