Many; jm injustice Has been done the unsuspecting Australian racehorse, Phar lap. ■ - Because : be is continually winning and upset,ting ' people's speculations, "attempts. huv6 been made to shoot him and also to, run him down with a motor-car. Now his name, has been used to represent the signature b£ a business man on a doubtful; slip of paper. The other day. the business man was unable' to :find bis Chinese laundry ticket,'"and as a: consequence experienced difficulty -in retrieving his washing. After ' much ■ arguing - bis bland-countenanced laundryman agreed to hand over "the required parcel providing the owner attached his signature opposite some Chinese hieroglyphics, which might have meant anything. • -Not wishing to. commit himself to anything ' .save "for tius washing, the man. scribbled the name ' it Fhar Lap" onthe slip of'paper-placed- bte"fore : him. Tie -was.'sealed •• to the satisfaction' t>? the and-tlio laundry chsngsd over bq it*«wi»e*..
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20087, 17 November 1930, Page 7
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