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Otago Witness, Issue 3783, 14 September 1926, Page 37

A restaurant in a North Island centre which does a great trade as a schoolboy “tuckshop” has devised a good way of keeping business brisk. Now and again half-price days are instituted, but not until the customers enter the shop are they aware that half-price day, permitting double the return for the same money, is at hand. Thus there is always an atmosphere of pleasant uncertainty, and a pile of bicycles parked in front of the premises testifies to the popularity achieved. “This scheme of flood control would be of greater benefit to Palmerston than the Agricultural College, toward which the municipality is to pay £10,000,” said Mr F. C. Hay, consulting engineer to the Manawatu-Oroua River Board, in giving evidence before the commission appointed by the Government to inquire into the £450,000 scheme of flood control proposed by the board.