RANDOM REMINDER
LIQUOR LICENSE
A short time ago, a Christchurch lady was in bed with a sharp attack of influenza. She is a harmless soul, not at all addicted to the bottle. A light shandy is her limit at a party, so she is still wondering why fate should play such an unkind trick on her. It was at a time when hotel workers were in
dispute and not working at week-ends. A neighbour called in to see the afflicted lady and said she was going out to buy her husband’s week-end supply of liquid refreshments. Feeling virtuous at looking after her husband’s interests, the invalid requested her to buy one half-gallon of beer. The neighbour returned, in a hurry to get the dinner on, and placed the
full half-gallon jar on the bedside table. Fate could not have been more unkind, for almost immediately after, a visitor called and was ushered in to the bedroom by one of the children. There was the poor lady, propped wanly on her pillows, with a half-gallon of beer beside her. Was it any wonder that her visitor looked astonished? He was the local vicar.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 22
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192RANDOM REMINDER Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33093, 7 December 1972, Page 22
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