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NZ Truth, Issue 81, 5 January 1907, Page 5

In Wales a measure called a "blue" holding two-thirds of a pint, is still m use. Now everybody can guess the origin of the expression getting "blueblind." Some awful monikers to carry about. taken from one issue of the "N.Z. Times" :— Tripe, Snout, Leech, ( Sewer, Nussey, Mules, Moderate Chis parents should have christened him Isaac Malcolm), Wilder, Tame, What prompts people to steal a thing they don't want ? Nobody seems to be able to tell. Take the i case of Hugh Spalding Dixon, a gatekeeper at the Zibishun, getting £2 2s per week. When ofi duty he was strolling through the building ami snavelled a sample bottle of whisky from the stall of Daigety. and Co. Yet he doesn't drink, doesn't know ithe taste of gro?. All the same the ' mean, paltry theft cost him £2 or ; 14. rlays, besides the !oss of his 'fcillct.