A MEETING AND A MEMORY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 217, 15 August 1918, Page 3

A MEETING AND A MEMORY.

“It was a beast of a day, extremely cold, and the snow was driving in a hurricane wind, when a captain, seeing some likely signs of shelter, ended at our shanty, and asked to stay awhile until he could get a lorry for • Naturally we were only too pleased to shelter him and made him as comfortable as possible under the drciimAfter he bad thawed, the. following conversation was carried on: — “I suppose you are a fully qualified chartered accountant, and everyone else in your unit?” “No, only our officers.” “What, then, were you before ilie war?” 4 'Commercial Clerk.” “Where?” “Cadbury.” “Were you, really? At Bournville? Ah, 1 remember Bournville. Spent the happiest dav 1 ever remember there.” “Really?” “Yes. I went with the British Association. I can see the children dancing round the maypole now —the play m those lovely grounds. Oh, it was tophole.” “Of course, 1 told him that I helped to entertain them, and for a quarter of an hour spent a very happy time —not in France —but Bournville, anil it uas surprising what a lot he had remembered after some eight years, recalling oven the box of chocolate that be took home. The lorry arrived, and lie, was soon white with snow, and 1 wondered if his spirit was still at Bournville in the sunshine.” Bourvillo supplies are strictly rationed, Britain’s necessities and consequent prohibition of export oi lootlstufTs alone prevent Bournville Cocoa and Cadbury’s Chocolate from reaching New Teakind at present.”