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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2408, 15 December 1887, Page 2

A promenade concert in aid of the Hamilton Band will be bald in Mrs UWynne's garden on l-'rjday, I’Uh hist. Tiyo of the school committeemen of a neighboring town got into a fierce argument. One said that a man sits down, while the other was equally sure that he sets down. Seeing that there was no hope of coming to. an agreement, they decided tp leave it to the chairman of the board. That dignitary heard the arguments; advanced on cither side. He then hemmed three times, swallowed his Adam's apple twice, inflated his chest till he looked like a pouter pigeon, and delivered hiniself thus : “ Gentlemen yqu qre both wrong . You don’t say a man sits down, nor sets down ; you say he sot down. And now let ns go on with the examination of applicants for vacancy in the high school. They've got to be mighty spry if they pass my catechizing.”