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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 6

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E understand that a prolific New Zealand author has a new book in the press; It is to be called: " My Climbs in the Caucuses." * * x UGGESTED colours for the flag of a United States of Europe-Black and Blue-Dublin Opinion. Es * * YES, Gracie, we, too, hope that when we take our ARP to a party, no one will ask us to play. * % % A CERTAIN golfer, after a day’s golf, partook of too much refreshment, and arriving home very late, was confronted by his angry wife. When he meekly submitted that he had been playing golf, she stormed. "Playing golf! Are you trying to tell me you can play golf in the dark?" "Oh, yes, that’s easy my dear," came the quick response, " You see, we were using the night clubs " * * * THE last time I was on St. Helena," says a traveller, "the buildings all looked as if they could do with a coat of paint." Well, if by the end of the war the hand of the Fuehrer hasn't lost its cunning ba Ba * A MAN who was convicted of attempting to obtain two hundred pounds from an Army officer by means of a confidence trick, said it was his first attempt to defraud anybody. A case of beginner’s pluck. . 3 * ES "THE employee of a fishmonger’s shop was charged with taking home boxes of filleted fish. He certainly had no right to bone the stock like that. . ee * A NORWEGIAN scientist is asking for financial assistance to enable him to perfect a new form of depth-charge. What one might call a Sinking Fund. * % * ACCORDING to a writer in the women’s page of "a daily paper, a lot of time and trouble may be saved by having one’s meals from a dinner waggon. Or "a la cart," as the French would say. re. * [TD OPOTHY PARKER is reported to have said once that if all the debs at a Yale Prom were laid end to end-she wouldn't be at all surprised. * * -* BLANCMANGE powder is now rationed in Ger- = many. The food position there is becoming very shaky,