VERBATIM.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 185, 23 June 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

VERBATIM.

The 'oral reporter- of a certain provincial town. naving been found iault with for their method of reporting the spe-cehes at the council's me'tings, retaliated by giving the speech of ono of Hi." members exactly as it was spoki n. When the Councillor looked for his speech next morning it read as follow* : "The r porters—ought not to—the reporters ought .lot to be the ones to judge what i- important- not to say What should be left out but—the members > an only judge of what is important As f a- on speccbi —as the reports a- what I say is reported sometimes, mi one- nobody ep'i understand from the reports ivliai it is wbai I mi an. So it strikes me ii has struck iiie certain matter, -things that appear of no impoi tale • -- are sometimes left out omitted. The reportei'- —the papers—points are report, oil I mean to make a hi ief statement what the paper thinks of iutccst i- reported." SOON' PIT BIGHT. A t'alnilv removed from the town to the suburb-, and ',vetv told bv their neighbours to buy n watch-do/. They went to a (log-fan<-icl end bought the largest do- he had. A Uv: (lavs later the house was entered bv burglars who made a pood haul while til" doe wa- a-leei). 'I he father hastily w.ent to tlie dog-fancier and told the whole story. ■Veil."-aid the do.j-fnncier "all dnt you need now v,i- a leeille do;; to vake un dor big dog."