RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30936, 17 December 1965, Page 28

RANDOM REMINDER

RANK OUTSIDER

Yesterday’s note ended with reference* to the possibility of schoolmasters having to eat the original copies of examination papers to defeat the efforts of their charges to win information before they are really entitled to it: today, no speculations, no flights of fancies, just facts, authenticated and from, to coin a phrase, an authoratative source. It was not in Christchurch, of course, for the man at the centre of the thifig was against the law. He accepted wagers on horse races. This no-

fariou* operation was conducted on his domestic premises and he went about it, for some time, with modest success. But one day he beard, through the sort of grapevine which operates among such people, that the police were aware of what he was doing and were about to visit him. officially. But he carried on, with Ms bead on his shoulder. Until one wet Saturday When he was at work as usual, the telephone at his elbow, his front door end his back door firmly locked. Then it happened. There

was a firm tread at feet outside the house and a determinad effort to open the barti door. This was it, sod tbba tor Operation Epiglottis to swing into action. Mot tor Mm the risk of bunting up his betting slips. He ate them, washing the filthy stuff dawn with materials ready fit hand. The toot went to the front and there was a heavy hammering on the door. He got the last bit down and went to open IL He was thereupon greeted by a punled son.