"Waafs In The Bath"
]T might be called "The Waats in the Bath,’ a Comedy in Four Acts, beginning at Christmas, 1941, and ending the other week. Act I: At a Waat camp somewhere in England bath-water slops down the overflow pipe. Officials investigate. "It’s a crime to waste water," they declare. Great care is taken to comply with R.A.F. regulations, which stipulate that baths must be filled only to within four inches of the top. But the overflow still gurgles merrily. Act II: The Works and Bricks Department investigates and finds that the overflow answers all specifications. The W. and B.D. is _ stumped, Act III: Waats stand ankle deep in mud and bath-water until some unnamed student of Archimedes’ law expresses the wisdom that a body displaces the same amount of water as its own bulk. A bath filled to within four inches of the top will therefore overflow when occupied by an outsize Waaft. Act IV: The unnamed genius suggests that all baths be equipped with three painted "Plimsoll Lines" showing what level the water should reach for little Waafts, medium-sized Waats and big, bouncing Waafs. Suggestion adopted, overflow ceases, everybody is happy. -"News Review"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 176, 6 November 1942, Page 9
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197"Waafs In The Bath" New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 176, 6 November 1942, Page 9
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