A FACETIOUS STUDENT. ] Tty a judicious and amusing play mpon words one of the Sydney University Jaw students who took part .in the inter-’varsity dehate at the Auckland University College showed himself highly skilled in this method of public appeal. His opening remark, that the modern woman was certainly more ambitious and had more in view than her grandmother, brought .much laughter, and was followed fry the suggestion that, although she pint on a lot of “dog,” she would still fie “catty.” Continuing, he said it used to ho considered that a stitch in time saved nine, bub now it made a dress; and, further, although men went about with their socks as full of holes as ever, women didn’t give a “darn.” He also referred to the decline in cooking, hut everything else woman touched she made a “hash” of.
F. W. THOMPSON £ COY (J. P. COULSON, PROPRIETOR) CARRYING AND FORWARDING AGENTS, HALL ST. HOKITIKA. CIARRYING in nil its branches. town or country. Furniture securely packed and forwarded to any part of New Zealand. Agent for N.Z. Express Coy. ’Phone 125.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1928, Page 8
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182Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1928, Page 8
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