With a half-filled sugar bag in one hand, a boot in the other, both feet bare, and quite inebriated, a man was escorted from the first express from the north recently to a waiting taxi, and thence to North street (says the Timaru Herald). His condition was one of helplessness, and from the guard it was learned that, while in the express, the bare-footed one had been laborious!}’ engaged in trimming his toe nails. A loose bandage was apparent on one foot, ami, from the appearance of the sugar bag. it was not possible to discern whether the missing boot rested within.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3961, 11 February 1930, Page 75
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102Untitled Otago Witness, Issue 3961, 11 February 1930, Page 75
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