RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31976, 1 May 1969, Page 20

RANDOM REMINDER

THIRD TIME LUCKY

You can't be unlucky, not all the time, although there seem to be periods of drought in one’s financial fortunes. Regard, if you will, the young Christchurch man who, one Monday morning —never the peak of the week —received a cheque from an insurance company for $2.50, with the explanation that a premium had been overpaid. It seemed strange, because the premium had been only $4 ... the young man felt a clear conscience was preferable to a slightly

less empty pocket, so telephonaid the company. They checked, apologised, explained the cheque had gone to the wrong man. It was returned. On Tuesday, there was a cheque for $5 from an Auckland firm which makes projectors. But he had purchased the projector in a Christchurch store, where the attendant had said the manufacturers were giving a $5 discount, and so $5 was taken off the price. In a split decision, conscience won again, and the young man went back to

the store. The attendant said he was sorry, the discount should not have been given there, and he accepted the cheque. But Wednesday brought a different story. In the mail, an invoice for an atlas. There was a letter with it, couched in those usual simpering terms, about oversights and payments being overlooked, etc. No payment, this time. But the invoice went back, and, with it, a polite note stating that payment would be made—when the atlas was delivered.