Surprise for Soldier

Opunake Times, 16 September 1941, Page 5

Surprise for Soldier

A Southland soldier now serving in Kgypl had a surprise a few weeks ago when ho went to the pictures. He saw himself on the screen! It came about this way. About two years ago Private Ewen Trotter, of Woodlauds, was spending a holiday at Stewart Island. One day he was a member of a party on a launch trip in Paterson Inlet, when a deer was sighted swimming across the inlet. The launch gave chase and a man filmed the incident- “Look out for this being screened one of these days,” was the remark of the cameraman. It was screened—but not in New Zealand. Private Trotter, in a letter just received by his parents, tells how he saw himself taking part in the screened version of the chase under circumstances which he had never imagined. He was the most surprised man in that audience of soldiers in the theatre in Egypt. Cheaper to he Bald!

A graduated scale of charges for hair-cuts on the principle of less hair, less to pay, was advertised by a Christchurch hairdresser a few days ago. His portrait, which appears in the advertisement, shows him to be decidedly bald. Tire price-schedule runs: Standard rate, 1/3; semi-bald, 1/-; “just Mice me,” 9d. Soldiers, sailors and airmen may have haircuts at the “semi-bald” rate, but inferential ly any of them who can claim to bo as bald as the proprietor will not be charged more than 9d. •On Top