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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 6

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{ EWCOMERS to the Navy have shown surN prise at the fondness of sailors for knitting. We can’t say why; they’ve always known how to cast off. * * * A BOOK REVIEWER says he likes a novel that flows swiftly. Oddly, it’s not so difficult to wade through. * * * E read somewhere that taxi-drivers often use lotion to stop their hands from getting roughened by constant driving. Most of them seem to be content with a greasing of the palm at the end of the journey. * * * RITES a critic: "German propaganda is nullified by its lack of facts.".There’s a shortage of roar materials! * bd tk NEVER question your wife’s good judgment too strenuously. Look whom she married, x * * eT HE man in uniform is once again the idol of France," says a columnist. All the nice Gauls love a soldier. * * * [NX the opinion of a fashion expert, many an eminent " man owes much to his tailor. But why rub that in? * * * RETIRED DOCTOR who has started a duck farm says he does not take what the birds say as any reflection on his former professional status. * * * HE restoration of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy ‘* is regatded as a possibility by a contemporary. The House of Perhapsburg? : * * * N American comedian has written a comic epitaph for his own tombstone. However, the joke’s not on him yet. * cd * AN astronomer says that the world as it is to-day will last for 19,000,000 years. So don’t store flags and bunting for peace celebrations in a too inaccessible part of the attic. x Bg A WRITER in an English paper points out that as sO many women are on war work, there will be very little spring-cleaning done this year. It will be nice to forget the horrors of peace for a little while. * * & A MYSTERIOUS broadcasting station is now advising German soldiers to surrender to the Allies. A sort of Kameradio?