RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31343, 13 April 1967, Page 26

RANDOM REMINDER

MESSAGE RECEIVED, MISUNDERSTOOD

Morpheus is responsible for more upsets than the F.0.L., parking meters, women on golf courses, and Graham Kerr in the New Zealand kitchen. The sleepy-head often does the strangest things .... A Christchurch woman, half-awakened at 5 a.m. by her husband, on the point of departure for Nelson, was told that he had put her housekeeping money under the clock on the dressing table. There are six children in the family, so he had—with the cost of living what it is—to leave

behind the sort of sum which would buy half a dozen wives or a whole herd of cattle In some of the darker parts of Africa. Later in the day she could not find the money, and decided that if she had not dreamed hearing him tell her where it was, he must have picked it up with his papers, which had been beside the clock. She sent him a telegram reading: “Unable to find housekeeping cash. Please ring.” He duly telephoned. She told him the story, he made some investigation,

and, sure enough, the money was inside a sheaf of his papers. But he showed far more alarm than would be expected from a man who had no more to do than wire the money home again. He asked her anxiously if she was all right, because he couldn't understand her strange telegram. Perhaps someone in the Post Office had also been a little drowsy. The message he received was “Unable to find house. Keeping cash.”