FAIR LOOT.
John Bull, A.B. "Well, I didn't start out for this; but there can't be any harm in picking up a good thing."
"The idea is to make it possible for every individual to register for himself a number at the General Post Office.... All you do is to address him, say: '105051, care General Post Office,' and the officials look up 05051's latest address and forward the letter."
We fear that this is just what they would do.
"The members of Caldicot Wesleyan Church Sunday School had their annual summer tea on Tuesday in a field kindly lent by Mr. W. Howard of Church Farm."
This comes under the heading "War Items" in The Newport Evening Post. On applying to the Official Press Bureau, however, we were unable to obtain from Mr. F. E. Smith any confirmation of the rumour.
"The Chairman put the vote, and there being no answering cries of '!' declared the vote carried nemine contradicente."
Birmingham Daily Post.
After which the proceedings closed amid approving shouts of "
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"A large firm of contractors to hotels points out that a prominent form of waste is eating too much."—Times.
Conversely, eating too much brings on a prominent form of waist.
Motto for debtors: Moratorium, te salutamus.