PLEASE EXPLAIN

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32233, 27 February 1970, Page 17

PLEASE EXPLAIN

A job well done is, in itself, sufficient reward for most people, but it is reasonable to suggest that when others recognise that satisfactory service has been given, it is pleasant indeed, and few would say that they did not win at least passing pleasure from the tangible recognition, should it be forthcoming.

There are exceptions to every rule, however, and in this context one must number among, them a

young Christchurch girl who works, for a newspaper as a reporter. She is a good reporter, a conscientious one, and whatever task comes her way ■ receives her full attention. So when she Was sent to report a show held by one of the Bower societies, what more natural than that she should turn in an excellent report. One of the executives of the society was so pleased with her work that he sent to her flat an - array of flowers, some of

the blooms which had been in the competition. They were magnificent, and there were many of them. It was unfortunate that she was not at home when they arrived. But her flatmates were. This note may help persuade them that she had been holding out on them, and that she had not, without their knowledge. won the friendship of some enormously wealthy oil millionaire, or a member of the legal profession.