"TAKE A CAR, OLD MAN"
"NEW ZEALAND BENEFACTOR" LONDON, July 8. A young official of the British broadcasting Corporation, after suspecting that he was intended to be the victim of an antipodean confidence trickster, finds himself the possessor of a new and costly saloon car.. The stranger sat at the official's lunch table, after introducing himself as a New Zcalander. He extolled British scenery as seen during a motor trip, and elicited that the official owned a prehistoric little two-seater of the mouse-trap type. "Have mine!" exclaimed the stranger, who took the official's address and departed. The official went home, and was astounded to find his garage occupied by the New Zealander's gift, complete with log-book and insurance certificate.
The police, when consulted, assured the official that there was nothing wrong, though the benefactor had disappeared.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 12
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