RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31276, 24 January 1967, Page 24

RANDOM REMINDER

COME HOME BILL BAILEY

The long arm of the law is a puny, shrivelled thing compared with the tentacles of a commercial firm. You just can’t beat the system, not even if you rush off to the other side of the world. In Nelson there is a man who Can tell you all about it. He is a former Londoner, and when in London, he did what the Londoners did. He used to hire a television set So

many of them do. Weekly instalments, plenty of Bonanza, and everyone more or less happy. He is a thoughtful and careful gentleman, and when he decided to emigrate to New Zealand, he was good enough to return his television set to the firm which owned it. He had been a resident of Nelson for about three months when he received a letter from England. The letter, bearing his proper and correct Nelson ad-

dress, had been sent by the television firm. The Nelson man thought it only reasonable and right that the television firm should remind him that he had overlooked paying the final rental on his television set But he did think it a bit steep that the firm should demand, in language clearly framed by the company solicitor, that he should present himself at the London office in person to offer an explanation.