Around . . . And About
I’ve heard it suggested, from the way Russia has been having a go at all and sundry, that they’re considering changing the hammer and sickle into the hammer and tongs. * * ■» The British Ambassador in Mexico has received the eleventh and last payment for damage to British property caused during the Mexican revolution of 1911-17. It’s easy to pay the Mexican way. • * ♦ How’s this for a strictly personal wedding gift? When an American now in the Dominion married a New Zealand girl recently she remarked on the small number of personal gifts he received compared with herself. He didn’t know sufficient people, he confided. A dental pal took the hint. His present: A new set of dentures! Rumour has it that while a chain grocery was advertising a £2OO- prize nation-wide crossword puzzle, the Christchurch Public Library had all it dictionaries . . . stolen.
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Lake County Mail, Issue 43, 31 March 1948, Page 5
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144Around . . . And About Lake County Mail, Issue 43, 31 March 1948, Page 5
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