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Otago Witness, Issue 3972, 29 April 1930, Page 4

An enterprising commercial traveller recently decided to make a trip up the Mokau River and, piling his goods into a boat fitted with an outboard motor, set out on his travels. Nightfall found him miles up the river being bluntly refused a bed by the last housewife he had called upon before darkness made it impossible to do any further business. So, with a view to saving energy on the morrow, before lying down to sleep as best he could in the bottom of his craft, he cast off to allow it to float downstream. As it was slowly drifting along somebody saw it and concern existed on the riverbank when the news spread that the boat was drifting down the river. Ways and means of salvage were being discussed when a head poked itself over the side of the boat, and what might have been a tragedy on a small scale was turned into a good joke.