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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 6

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GERMAN has invented a folding umbrella A nics goes into the pocket. A kind of con- — centration gamp? % . * "[(IELD-MARSHAL GOERING has probably never played football," says a correspondent. We conSider this a great pity. What a® centre-forward! And With the centre so well forward! * * * See ALED in a barn with a cine-camera, an American police officer shot scenes of illicit whisky manufacture, Later, as evidence, he produced this moving study of still life. * H * eet ER she had complained several times, a telephone official called to. see her, and told her there was something wrong with her dial.- English Country paper. There was no need for him to be rude about it. * * * ‘JT has been suggested that we call English our ‘* mother tongue, because father does not get much chance to use it. * % * UITOR: Is that an eight-day clock? Bored girl-friend: Why don’t you stay a little longer and find out? ; * * * A DRUM was stolen by thieves from a music store, among other articles. And then, of course, they had to beat it. ; * * * ‘A MILKMAN was recently fined for giving his customers short measure. He was doing it on the Qt. . % * * 'A .SCIENTIST claims he is able to cure acute depression by projecting a beam of light on the patient. Hoo-ray! * * * Pap SON is bound to cost more than it did before the war," says a Ministry of Food official. Dear deer! * * % eves in Central America chew a rubbery substance, which enables them to do without sleep for a long period. A similar custom in our own country is having Welsh rabbit for supper. * * * 7 gcd Chicago packing houses are said to be the 1 "most prosperous in the world. They seem to make both ends meat all right)