NOW, JOHN!

NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 10

NOW, JOHN!

Selling Sweets. ls Your Game

(From "N.Z/ Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative.) John William Murdock's forte is selling- confectionery to {toe g-ood folk of Dunedin, for he is certainly a poor hand at absorbing his share of race-day liquor.

TN the fifty-five' years he has been on A this planet he has not yet acquired the art of holding his liquor like a gentleman and controlling ,his. car at the same time, and it was his weakness m this direction that led hihi to the Police Court m Christchurch to explain to the magistrate why he was drunk while m charge of his can John added to the offence by failing to produce" . the necessary cardboard authority to be at the wheel. As a respite from the monotony of appeasing the needs of the sweettoothed fraternity of the dour city, John .hiked off to see the Cup run at Riccarton. While driving m a file of cars coming home from the meet, he carelessly failed to observe that the cars in* front of him were stopping, and he hit them from behind. One of the bumpeos m the case complained to a traffic cop m the Square, and when John was accosted and asked to get out of his bus he -attracted much attention by' his inability to stand up properly. This cop was a fly bird and figured that John had been gazing on the wine when it was red, so the Dimedinlte was trotted along to the S.M. for an explanation. „ John thought the least said the better, so he maintained at attitude of adamant silence when the charge was

read, and preferred to let justice take Its course uninterruptedly. And m John's nextr balance-sheet will appear an unanticipated item on the expenditure side of £10 which the law decreed that he must pay for his lapse, "while someone else will have to do the driving for a few months if John's car leaves the g'arag'b.