SHORT CIRCUITS.
That Robot Feeling. Hap Hayes: "What's wrong, Vic, you look all in?" Vic Valve: "Aw, I was out all night, parked by a 1-ed lantern that was sittin' aside an excavation." Hap: "Yea.h, what was the idea?" Vic: "I was waitin' for it to turn green." = , Streaky. , j | Squire: "Seep anything of her lady- ' | ship, Giles? She's learning to drive | a motor car." | Giles: "Ay, sir. She passed I loike 1 lightnin' 'ari: -hour ago." 1 | Squire: "Like lightning?" j | Giles: "Ay. Zig-zag loike." \ He Did His Best. 7 Policeman to tramp who has been ! 1 the victim of a road hog: "Knocked f down by a car. But didn't you get j I its number?" I I Tramp: "Well, I tried to, but the ' | darn thing was fixed." § Mixed Up. £ Traffic Constable: "Get a move on | miss, you're causing an obstruction." I Novice:'"I'm sorry, but the thing's I stopped and I've got my handbooks i mixed up. Instead of 'Faults and How to Finrl Them,' I've brought out 'Woof Rug-making Made Easy'." A Bold Front. An article of men's wear which many people thought had disappeared for ever as an adjunet to comic-hall turns, is making a determined bid to come back. It is the "dickey," Among motorists the dickey has always had its place at the back. Can it be coming to the front? DID YOU KNOW — That of 7,947,000 miles of highways in the world, the Union of South Africa has 85,598 miles? That the United States has 3,024,-
233 miles of road or one mile to every square mile? That French Guiana has only one mile of road to every 1240 square miles? That in 1930 motor vehicles to the number of 3,510,178 were produeed ■ in the United States and Canada, of j ' which 559,907 were exported from ; j America? J | That there were 36,603,000 motor i vehicles in the world? j, i That the United States with its 26,523,779 vehicles had one to every 4.6 of the population, and that England with its 1,308,272 vehicles had , one to every -27 people? That Ethiopia had one vehicle to every 14,858 of the population?
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 22, 18 September 1931, Page 6
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