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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 53, 28 June 1940, Page 6

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ITLER is said to be eating one meal a day as an example to the German public. Other reports ‘say ‘that the German public is eating one meal @ day as an example to Goering. * %* ES A WITNESS in an English police court admitted that he rarely read the newspapers, but that he knew there was a war on. Another triumph for the Ministry of Information. * * * T is reported that a Swedish scientist has invented a new "lie detector." A friend of ours is convinced that he married one. Bs ** * CAT-BURGLAR said in court that he was once a successful financier. Those were the days when he got in on the ground-floor. ; % * * HE yellowish, darting lights grew brighter as ; the wind freshened. Soon a cloud of dense smoke billowed above the tree-tops. Figures hurried past him ... there were cries of "Fire! Eire!"-Short story. It’s a bit thick the way some people blame Ireland for everything. x * ]'VE heard people-most of them surprisingly broadminded in, other respects-say that our men at the Front are given too much rum. It’s all tummy-rot.-Daily paper. Tommy will risk it, we imagine. * * * ]F this is an all-wool rug, why is it labelled cotton? That, madam, is to fool the moths, * Es * "GERMANY to Woo Rumania for Essential Commodities," runs a newspaper headline, Oil Be Your Sweetheart. * Ea % ‘AFTER consuming a four-course meal, a diner _ dashed out of a restaurant when presented with the bill. He evidently. felt that, as he couldn’t foot it, his only chance was to leg it. t * * * UR root crops constitute one of the major foot problems in time of war.-Gardening article. So does our corn. ; * * oF CONVERSATION piece: : Where have you been? To the beauty parlour, Was it closed?