An amusing instance of cross-pnr.r-poses occurred the other day whi:ii vvas made possible iri the first place by the fict that the Wellington offices of Thos. Cook and Sons' the tourist agents, are situated in the same building as the Office of the District Registrar. A lady called at the office of Cook and Sons and informed* a clerk, as he imagined, that she wished to register a birth. “Certainly madam,” replied the clerk, “first or second?” “First,” replied the lady, with a pause, and with a look of astonishment, for which the clerk found it impossible to account. The problem, however, was quickly solved. “What steamer?’ ’asked the clerk, returning to the business in hand. “It’s not a steamer, it’s a baby,” said the fair caller. Then somebody told the mystified caller that the Registiai s office was round the corner. *
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3434, 27 January 1912, Page 10
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142Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3434, 27 January 1912, Page 10
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