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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 December 1927, Page 9

There is in Christchurch a. man who s feeling very pleased with, himself ("says the “Sun.”) When liis wife left for her holiday lie decided to celebrate l.he festive season by inviting some fellow Froth-Blowers to share with him a case of beer, which be ordered from a well-known brewery- Unfortunately, his wife missed her train, arid returned home to find the case of beer outside the back door of the house, where it had been left by the man who delivered it. Much .annoyed by this? proof of her husband’s weakness, and determined to teach him a lesson, she straightway smashed all the bottles. Now, the husband was a man of ready wit, and seelnc- that the damage w» done, he uromptlv sought cut the carrier who bad delivered the beer, and who was. a friend of hip, and together they devised a plan. The husband returned to bis home, and was asked bv his wife for an explanation of his conduct. Tn the midst of a heated discussion, the carrier arrived, and explained that, having been given a wrong address, he had left a case of beer there by mistake. It was a very crestfallen wife who had to foot the ibid.