People engaged in business are subject to all sorts of extraordinary,_ though possibly innocent, inquiries, which leave the attendant either gasping or hugely amused (remarks the Southland Times”). A lot of stories have been told with gusto about the questions asked.ot gramophone dealers, but one incident that is quite as amusing and has the merit of being perfectly true,, occurred in an Invercargill shop the other day. A lady came in and, with all assurance, asked for a record. “I can’t tell you the name of it, but it goes up and. down, she said. No further description was forthcoming, and the salesman had to admit his glaring inefficiency in not being able to say to which of the several thousand records stocked the information applied,' and the lady left disappointed. /
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 233, 28 June 1929, Page 6
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