AN INTELLIGENCE TEST

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3308, 31 March 1926, Page 12

AN INTELLIGENCE TEST

Whether it was to win a bet or not could not be ascertained, but a man with time reposing abundantly in his hands, certainly enjoyed himself immensely in a Socratic way when he made the round of a dozen business premises in Palmerston North yesterday and subjected the occupiers to something in the nature of an intelligence test. The question was a simple one, yet not one of the twelve men approached gave the correct answer, from which it may be deduced that the whole of the town’s shopkeepers and others of commercial standing, arc equally ignorant. The question was this: "In the event of a fire occurring, what number would you dial to summon the fire brigade? The replies were as diversified as the occupations of the tradesmen approached, but all expressed ignorance of the correct answer, "Is it necessary that I should remember when 1 have a telephone hook handy?" was one reply received. The answer was as equally direct and to the effect that no one can estimate the real value of seconds saved when a Arc is in its initial 6tagos ( or if a book will always bo Jiandy,