Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume. 33, Number 10. 8 July, 1970
Inside Right
Inside Right
Thanks and a bundle of nappies to the Evening Post for this report (printed in its entirety), headed 'Mrs' Dean Eyre Speaks About Plunket':
Mrs Dean Eyre, wife of the New Zealand High Commissioner in Canada, recently addressed the Canadian Mothercraft Society.
Enlarging on her theme that "happy and healthy babies are the healthy, strong citizens of the future," she outlined the history of the Plunket Society, to the great interest of her large audience.
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"My dear" said she, as she carefully folded up her scarf and gloves, "my brave physician ought to have a Title bestowed upon him. And no doubt he will. You are of that opinion?"
That he deserved one, yes. That he would ever have one, no.
"Why not, Fitz-Jarndyce?" she asked, rather sharply.
I said it was not the custom in England to confer titles on men distinguished by peaceful services, however good and great; unless occasionally, when they consisted of the accumulation of some very large amount of money. Surely you know, my dear, that all the greatest ornaments of England in knowledge, imagination, active humanity, and improvement of every sort, are added to its nobility! Look around you, my dear, and consider. You must be rambling a little now, I think, if you don't know that this is the greatest reason why titles will always last in the land!"
I am afraid she believed what she said; for there were moments when she was very mad indeed.
( From Bleak House)
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At the end of Brian Edwards' Gallery interview with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the following exchange was recorded (and chopped from the screened version):
Trudeau: Well, you certainly did your homework.
Edwards: Thank you. Have we got that on tape—that I did my homework?
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On the day before her divorce, Mrs Ursula Becker of Dortmund called at her husband's office to discuss the settlement of their property. In the course of her visit Mr Becker argued against separation, but in vain. However, when the Judge asked her to tell the Court how long it had been since they made love, Mrs Becker was surprised to hear her husband shout: "It's a lie!" when she said: "At least eighteen months ago."
"We made love on the floor of my office yesterday morning!" yelled Mr Becker.
"He's the one who is lying!" shouted his wife.
"I can prove it" Mr Becker continued. "I marked her arse with the office date stamp."
The petition for a divorce was not upheld.
(Says Private Eye)
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The Nzpa reports Mrs Phyllis Piotrow, "a former executive director of the Population Crisis Committee" as making the following remark in Washington:
"We are extrapolating now but with pregnancy you don't have to extrapolate for ever."
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Youth jailed
A 15-year-old youth, whose name was not given by the police, died from an electric shock yesterday, while working on a Taihape farm.—N.Z. P. A.
It never rains but it pours. (The Dominion provided the story).