TELEPHONE COMEDY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4233, 19 January 1940, Page 2

TELEPHONE COMEDY

A MORRINSVILLE INCIDENT. REACTIONS OF A SOLDIER’S WIFE. Great amusement, and perhaps some consternation, was caused in a Morrinsville district household recently as the result of the receipt ot' a telephone message from Matamata. The trouble arose all over a mistake in initials when a message in connection with the Matamata R.S.A. holiday scheme was sent through. Under this scheme members of the Matamata R.S.A. or friends who can entertain the children of members of the Auckland R.S.A.over , the holidays apply for their requirements. In this particular case a Matamata member who lives near Morrinsville applied for a girl aged 16 to 19 who played tennis for company for his daughter. He also arranged to pick his visitor up at the Morrinsville station. The request was duly complied with and when the Auckland R.S.A. supplied the name and particulars of the young lady this was duly communicated by phone to what was thought to be the right party. It was a lady who answered the telephone, however, and when she appeared slow of comprehension the Matamata official asked: “Isn’t that Blank of the R.S.A.?’’ “Yes,” came the decided answer. “Well, tell him the girl he asked for to entertain over the holidays will be on the Rotorua express to-mor-row.” “Will she?” replied a slow questioning voice, “Yes. You remember he asked for a young lady about. 19 years of age as a guest for the holidays. Will you tell him to meet her to-morrow.” “I’ll tell him,” came the answer, in definite but apparently amused tone.

The call being on toll was necessarily cut short. However, within half an hour there came a call for the Matamata official from a somewhat agitated Morrinsville Digger who had by then come in for lunch.

Explanations were quickly forthcoming, which showed that Blank, of the Morrinsville R.S.A. had got the message meant for Blank of the Matamata R.S.A. “You know,” concluded the Morrinsville Digger, “a man’s wife is naturally apt to be just a little bit suspicious when she receives a message like that.”