NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1925, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

“An Angry Husband,” writing from a settlement twenty odd miles from New Plymouth, and enclosing a corrected solution of a cross-word puzzle which appeared in a paper, says: “The wife sat up till three-thirty a.in. solving the enclosed. For God's sake, Jet u be vour last.”

Bad writing often leads to misunderstandings—some humorous, others again embarrassing (states the Wanganui “Chronicle”). A local business man received a communication from a client whose writing was hard to follow. He worried it out, however, til! lie came to the end, when he admitted to himself that he was all hut nonplussed. He asked a friend to decipher the lino above tlie signature. “Oh, that? That's easy! It. reads, ‘Yours with the Lord’. ” “Tlmts funny,” remarked the other, ‘I thought it was How’s it for a loan?’

Some queer excuses are often given for not being able to get work. Recently a man who said ho had only got three days’ work this year was asked how he accounted for that, and replied that most of the people to whom he applied for a ioh were religious people, and only gave work to those who were of the same mind as themselves, ‘You look a religious man yoursell.” what the man was told. “Oh no m not - I’m a freethinker, and "hen 1 U I the people that they soon leftist' to idvo me work.” “What on earth do you want to parade your Ireethouglit ideas for,” the man was again asked. “0!i Pm a Bolshevist, too,” came the instant reply. The man was told Ins beliefs would not do him much good m this world or the next, and it looked as though he was like the man who went to look for a job and prayed that he might not get it.