A curious story of mistaken identity is reported from New Plymouth. On the evening of the first day of the racing carnival a resident returned to his home near the racecourse, and was puzzled when his wife did not introduce some strangers w’ith whom she was seated in the dining room. Strangely enough his wife also looked puzzled, and ill at ease. Half an hour passed, and the visitors thought they had better be going, as they had a long drive south. As they left, one of them remarked :“We really came here to get our fortunes told I” Light dawned upon the householder, as he protested his ignorance of the unlawful art. A small mistake in the number and names of houses and streets had misled the seekers of fortune. Husband and wife spent the remainder of the evening explaining how they each believed that the visitors were acquaintances of the other.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 102, 24 January 1930, Page 7
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