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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 189, 12 May 1928, Page 28

Salesmen have their speciality lines, but a strange one was discovered the other day, when an Auckland “Sun” representative was informed by a man with a funereal appearance that he dealt in tombstones —on a commission basis. The success of this occupation, he stated, depended on the salesman's ability to forecast results. He said it. was his custom to watch for impending voyages across I lie Styx. Tiie tombstone dealer stated that although he had only one sale last month, liberal commissions made ■the game well worth while. The recent paucity of sales he attributed to a miscalculation in his estimates of “prospective business.” With the small boy of to-day the old pastime of "whipping on behind” and securing a cheap ride is passing away, for it is not so easy f osecure a lift on the back of a fast-travelling motor-lorry ns it was when the slow old cart and horse lorry was everywhere (says tiie Auckland "Star”). The juvenile cyclist often found that a tow uphill by a passing tram or motor eased his leg efforts, but traffic authorities soon put down that practice. Now a novel means of quicker travel than by shanks’ pony is at times witnessed on concrete roads. The proud possessor of a single roller skate attaches himself to tli<’ rider of a-cycle,'and the pair skim along to school or on the usual errands under the impulse of one-boy