RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34026, 15 December 1975, Page 24

RANDOM REMINDER

THE WELCOME MAT

The family relations are a bit complicated. The story isn’t. There was a Christchurch girl who, at the age of 12, went to Auckland to live. Two years later she returned. She was then 14. She came back to see her father, during the August holidays. She also arranged to call on her best girl friend of her Christchurch days. The mother of the best girl friend arranged to have the Auckland girl of 14 to lunch on the day she arrived from Auckland, where she had bx?n

for two years, since turning 12. The lunch date was convenient for the girl of 14. because she would not have been able to see her father until late afternoon, and her aircraft brought her to Christchurch about 12, after a flight of about an hour. At the home of the mother of the best girl friend, lunch was organised for about 12.30, the e.t.a. of the girl from Auckland. The mother of the b.g.f. had not seen the visitor for two years, since she was 12, The girl, that is. The front door bell rang rather earlier than

expected. But the welcome was right royal. The girl was invited inside, her coat was taken, she was ushered in, and instructed that although the daughter of the house would be home soon, the traveller must be very hungry and she should therefore sit right down and have her lunch, which would give her time to talk later. Which she did. Sit and have lunch, that is. The talk came just a little later, when she had time to explain that she had really come to collect the money for “The Press.”