RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31341, 11 April 1967, Page 30

RANDOM REMINDER

GREAT OAKES . . .

It’s funny how one little thing leads to another, and sometimes to embarrassing and quite unplanned second senses. In a little country town there lived a young, unmarried stock agent, whose home was a small flat attached to his firm’s premises. At a dance one night, his friends told him that It was not much fun living alone like that, without a

woman to look after him, and they said they would send him one. Back in Christchurch, they dusted down an old tailor** dummy, female, and amply proportioned, which they posted to him—cash on delivery. He paid, unwrapped it, smiled wryly and put it in the loft About a year, he was planning to get married, and cleaned out the loft of the flat He came across the dummy, looking even

more revolting than before. He put it in the back of his car and. In the dark of night, dropped it in a nearby river. And that waa how a party of ptenikers, a few days later, saw the naked torso of a woman bobbing its way out to sea, and that was why the local police had to get a launch out and recover the corpse. This note may, perhaps, help elose the flies on the ease.