IDOL OF FLAPPERS

NZ Truth, Issue 1079, 29 July 1926, Page 7

IDOL OF FLAPPERS

Groom's "Plus Fours'Create A Stir (From /Truths" Wanganui Rep.) ' Such, a nice young man, with a semir military' "mo," fresh .from the Old Country," looked, m at the office of Foster's, Limited, Wanganui, a few weeks ago. His stock-in-trade consisted of a kit of golf- clubs and a suit-case. IN the -suitr case was a pair of "plus fours" of a greenish color., with ja. check, m which, the owner cut a great dash m the River City for a fortnight. : ..'.:. „'■•; - * "Plus: Fours,", ?oiiherwise iikriowh as Peter Ellis Groom, was. ,a r frequent visitor to the Cosmopolitan golf links at Castleciiff, and there the flappers almost idolized him. This lasted a fortnight, and- then "Plus Fours" hit the trail for : Hawera without paying Jack Foster his'- board.^ Jack telephoned Grooni at Hawera,' and the latter-— polite as usual— told the" trusting Jack that his firm had" sent him an urgent telegram, but that -he would be back again m a few days* time. ~ . ■•.■'■•■• a However, Groom— who could .■' have been a bridegroom many . times over m Wanganui — never re; . turned. ' . • Foster's bill against him was -de 17.' 10s for board, and the charge was obtaining credit by fraud. Magistrate Riddell, at Wellington, gave him Si •.year's reformative, treatment. s i;ilHIIIIIIIIIIIII!llllllllIllllllllllllIIIMII!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIl!HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!f