RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32861, 9 March 1972, Page 21

RANDOM REMINDER

KNOW-HOW

The mm who achieve senior office in establishments lite working men’s clubs ainost invariably have qutlities of leadership and practical abilities above the average. Members of establishments like working men’s clubs have the halit of making their views public if and when they feel that those who aspire to office lack these essential attributes. It was therefore something of a shock, to the members of one such club in Christchurch, when their two vice-prffiidents displayed feet of day one recent week-end.

A member of the club has a holiday home in South Bay, and he made it available to these dignitaries for a week-end. The vice-presidents duly arrived at South Bay with their wives and families on a Friday evening. And being such good chaps, and fired with a proper enthusiasm to “do a good turn for Charlie,” Charlie being their absentee landlord, they decided they would cut the extensive lawn which graces the property. A motor-mower was available, and brought out. But the two men who went

to mow took some time to get started. There was much puffing, blowing and pulling of the starting cord before the machine burst into life. Away they went, all activity, up and down the lawn. They were disappointed to discover that nothwithstanding their energetic trundling, the thing was not cutting very well. There was a good reason for this, as they discovered, after an exhausting period of activity. The owner had taken the blade home to haye it sharpened.