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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 28, No. 6. 1965.

Capping Chit - Chat

Capping Chit - Chat

Did you notice one member of the advance-party, smartly uniformed and mounted, desperately trying to preserve his dignity and balance as a large piece of newspaper became entangled in the front wheel of his machine? Do you think that he was catching up with the news?

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Did you notice a construction worker hurl a tomato, with unerring aim, at capping controller Denis Paxie? And did you notice Denis turn up at the construction site later in the day with the police and claim 10/- from the missile-launcher concerned to cover the dry cleaning costs of one tomato-stained pullover?

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Did you see the letter to the paper in which the writer, a woman, objected to having a collection box rattled under her nose? She felt that she, and the other citizens of Wellington, are sufficiently adult to be able to make up their minds without the help of a box-rattling collector.

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"They ought not to lampoon the Queen, you know," said one member of the public to a collector. "I know a relation of the printer and he told me that was one of the things in your Cappicade. If they don't like the Queen they should keep it to themselves."

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Commented another collector: Some members of the public try to sneak past without being noticed. However, on being asked, they generally give something, and often it is a half-crown dropped conspicuously into the tin. Several old-timers quipped "Collecting for the senior citizens-that's me, I suppose. Here you are."

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One collector, a girl, espied a well-dressed man coming towards her. He looked like a business man. Hopefully, she moved towards him, anticipating a donation. And what did she get? No money, to be sure, but one gratuitous comment. "B—— off," the nice man said.