GOVERNOR AND SHOWMAN.
HELP FROM A MOTORIST.
AUSTRALIAN SHOW INCIDENT.
While a motorist was waiting at the level-crossing at Blacktown, 22 miles from Sydney, or a train to pass, a stranger appealed to him for a lift. "Do you happen to be going toward Richmond?" asked the stranger. "I have just missed a train, and will have to wait two and a-half hours for the next."
The motorist was going toward Richmond. Ho was driving his own car to ho present at tho Hawkesbury District Show.
" Jump in," lie said to the stranger,
The motorist turned out to be a very good driver, and a very affable companion. When they arrived at the show giound tho stranger was profuse in his expressions of gratitude. But lie received a shock a little later when he discovered tho identity of tho driver. It was tho Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, who was driving.
The stranger turned out to be a showman who had a stall at tho show, and after tho Governor had officially declared the show open—that was the mission that, took him to Clarendon—he had a stroll round tho side-shows and a friendly word with his former passenger.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21160, 18 April 1932, Page 12
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201GOVERNOR AND SHOWMAN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21160, 18 April 1932, Page 12
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