Employer: “Late again. Can't we do something about this?" Oil ice Boy: '•Well. sir. we could move the office nearer my home!" Downpours of rain caught a lot of A.R.P. experts napping in London a few weeks ago. The inhabitants of Wimbledon, writes a London correspondent. wanted to know why their throe sets of trenches were largely waterlogged and the ,C 39.000 spent on them therefore temporarily wasted. Even some of the military had not been very intelligent. On a golf course near London numbers of antiaircraft emplacements were a yard deep in water, for some bright fellow had ordered their construction at the bottom of a hill into which all the local water drained.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1939, Page 2
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