CHAPTER OF PAUL

NZ Truth, Issue 1052, 21 January 1926, Page 6

CHAPTER OF PAUL

A CLOUD of dust, a whirr of wheels and the car shot through Wellington's own sweet-smelling Kaiwarra. ".■ . A little further on an officer was greatly interested m the performance, as it seemed to him that the motorist was— well, going some. He stopped the car and gazed into a pair of eyes that sparkled with good humor! "Well," said the motorist. "Well," replied the traffic officer, "you slipped across that intersection at a pretty Jfair rate Mr. Ver .". He couldn't think of the rest. "Well, what are you going to do about it?" asked th? man m the car. "Do about it?" returned the officer, pulling out his notebook. "Why/I'd put you up quick and lively if I could only spell your name." The car was nearly to Ngahauranga by the time the book was replaced. With a name like Verachaft'elt Aye don't blame the officer a bit. But Paul ..Verschaffelt is not a speeding motorist. The "P.S.C." has no relation to "pretty speedy car," but to Public Service Commissioner and a very good one Paul V. is. He explained afterwards that the affluvia that belongs exclusively to that part of the Hutt road which he was trying to leave behind him "would make anyone hurry up a little bit."