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Insight

So The Post Office Hotel is to apply for 7am opening. Hope they don't get it. Would spoil all the fun of the present 7am opening;. You know the furtive glances, the collar turned up, the three rings on the bell, the straw so you'll get the first one down . . . halcyon days, halcyon days.

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Was More Than a little interested to see Dinkum Diggers Election policy. Keeping gambling in the Common room to silver coin level and all that. Nowadays the cheapest games played are for dollar minimum bets. One wonders how some of the players can afford all these cigarettes they stub out on the floor, or the soft drinks, the remains of which blend perfectly with the butts to make the cleaners earn their money.

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Talking of cleaners and gambling reminds one of a certain day when a cleaner sat down with some student gamblers and joined the game. All was well until one IH Boyd happened to stroll into the Common room showing some bod around the place. A very red faced cleaner picks up the shovel and bucket between his legs and shuffles off.

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Let Us Sing the invaledictory again. Election wise that is. The ballot paper, in spite of all your wonderful constitutional amendments was invalid, dears. And that ballot tin that was opened! Shocking! How come that nary an election goes by without a technical hitch!

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Question to Handy Andy the White Tornado. Are you Douglas White's campaign manager or are you a racist running for International Affairs position? Seriously, though, Andy is going places. Like a job with the Apple and Pear Marketing Board for instance.

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Good To See the Guv breaking wind up the Rimutakas. Signs of the times. Goes with rugby and half gallon jars more than Lord C did.

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The Dominion Strikes again! The first wool sale is, of course, no indication of how the year will go. The Wool Commission took only just over half and the Japanese (God bless em) bid a full ¼ cent over the floor price. Only trouble was that the floor price was 6 cents lower than last year's. I would like to announce the end of the drain on overseas reserves. They've just run out.

—Cynic

The reasons why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.—Swift.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on public offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.—Jefferson.