BOY MERCHANT.
HIS FATHER AS HIS MANAGER. An 18-year-old youth giving evidence at London Sessions said that lie set up in business as a waste-paper merchant when he was only 16, and engaged his father as manager. * < “And is it not a fact,” asked counsel, “that before that time your father was the manager in the service of your mother?”
“I did not know,” replied the youth. “What,” said the deputy-chairman (Mr H. W. W. Wilberforce), “you took your father into your employment without getting a reference from his last situation?” (Loud laughter.) A little later the boy was asked if his father was allowed to draw what money bet liked out of the business. “Oh, dear, “Hao,” he replied. '“1 gave him what It thought was right.” (Laughter.)
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 28, 31 December 1926, Page 10
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129BOY MERCHANT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 28, 31 December 1926, Page 10
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