RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33512, 18 April 1974, Page 13

RANDOM REMINDER

HOOKED

There’s nothing like a bit of good, old-fashioned prejudice to make the World go round, and round.

We much admire the firm views of a Canterbury farmer , who has stoutly resisted all attempts to persuade him into the purchase of a

television set. He has asserted that the whole business is a complete waste of time and money, and as he is a bachelor, the vote is unanimous. But he js not one of those craggy, crabby old bachelors. . While one would hesitate to suggest he has a heart as big as his farm, his friends agree that the milk of human kindness runs freely in his veins. So it was that on a recent evening, when the married couple on the

farm wanted to go out for the evening, he readily agreed to keep an eye on their youngsters, and said he would come down to their house to do the baby-sitting. They came home, quite late. They were assailed by a strange smell of burning. It came from a burned-out electric jug. He confessed, in technicolour. that the mishap had occurred some time earlier, while he had been engrossed in watching TV.