What $250 a week gets you in Hamilton (no smoking and no dogs).
Real estate ad causes confusion
"I worked for a prominent real estate office on the North Shore for several years," writes Brian Ruck. "In those days, we wrote our adverts for listings to advertise by hand and gave them to the office PA who copied and submitted them to the Property Press and North Shore Times, etc. I promoted for sale a particular house in Browns Bay. Within hours I was getting numerous calls of inquiry. Some calls were a bit odd, to say the least. I grabbed the hard copy. It described each upstairs bedroom as having a French widow!"
Not keen on junk mail
"I hate coupons, loyalty cards, special offers," writes a reader. "What a waste of a life. If all the retailers who subscribe to this nonsense would just knock 10c off everything in their inventory - including petrol - everyone would save money, us as consumers and they the printing and distribution costs of all this garbage. A pox on it all, I say."
Dogs taken along on protest marches
Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have been taking their pet dogs to protest venues. Known as "democracy dogs", many of them wear the yellow ribbons that are a symbol of the rallies demanding the resignation of Beijing-backed chief executive Leung Chun-ying. One of the dogs, a French bulldog called Meimei, was equipped with goggles and a mask after police used tear gas against the protesters. Her owner told the South China Morning Post that "she is definitely pro-democracy".
