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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 77

Briefly acknowledging the invitation of the president (Dr J. S. Elliott) to say a few words at the Wellington Town Hall the other night, Mr Sampson Handley, the renowned English surgeon attending the conference of the New Zealand branch of the 8.M.A., said that he was delighted to visit so beautiful a country. In New Zealand, he said, one saw a British Dominion in the full vigour of life, and it was a great and inspiring sight. The drapery sales in Wellington are mostly conducted at the one time, and a .stern price-cutting war results. “Things are so cheap that the wife can’t resist them,” a citizen complained recently to a Dominion reporter. “ She comes home daily with all sorts of things she doesn’t need. I ask her why on earth she wants to lumber up the place with such stuff, and all she says is: * But I just had to buy them, whether we need them or not, because they are so cheap! ’ There is no reasoning with a woman.”