RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29760, 1 March 1962, Page 19

RANDOM REMINDER

SUCCESS STORY

Love, which is a many splendoured thing, makes the world go round, and all the world loves a lover—even the foreman at a Christchurch factory who has lost one of his workers in a dream-world. The worker was 20, weighed something in excess of 2001bs, and looked capable of knocking together the heads of a couple of all-in wrestlers if they said a word out of place. But when he was called to the telephone, as he was each day, invariably, he became a different char-

acter—a soft, gentle, dewy-eyed young fellow. The foreman, an indulgent sort of man, made no objection to the young worker having long and intimate telephone conversations. They clearly had so much to talk about: apparently they had marriage ip mind, and naturally two young people in such a condition have much to discuss. They had to plan a house, of course, and that couldn’t be done in five minutes, or 500.

The billing and the cooing went on, and on.

Then one day the young worker’s young lady arrived at the factory to see him—no doubt to talk about some little detail, like a mortgage of a housing loan. The foreman had time to speak to her, briefly, as she passed. After she had gone, the foreman breathed heavily, and spoke to another of his workers. ‘That girl ” he said, "has had a really busy time. Fancy getting her driving licence and her school certificate on the same day.”