The story of a husband’s not very successful efforts to interest his wife in book-keeping in order that some sort of check could be kept on the family budget, was told recently. The husband presented liis wife with £2O and a small book, telling her to enter what she received on one side and what she spent on the other. A fortnight later he examined the book and read the entry: “Received from Bill, £20.” Facing it was the announcement: “Spent it all.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4055, 1 June 1938, Page 8
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