GOODS LEFT OUT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4534, 9 February 1942, Page 5

GOODS LEFT OUT

BUSINESS MAN’S LAPSE The older folk will remember the frenzied patriotic days of the South African War, when they sang lustily about “the absent-minded beggar.” Well, it so happens that a trooper who “did his bit” in those now far-distant days is now in business in Te Awamutu, and on Friday evening last he acted in a manner true to the tradition of “the absent-minded beggar” campaigning on the broad expanses of the veldt. With thoughts pre-occu-pied by the swimming carnival and, perhaps, lulled into a sense of false security by the blackout, he rushed out of his business premises, locked the door, and departed in a hurry to watch the progress of the aquatic events. But he forgot to take in the wares he had displayed outside—and they hung there, an open invitation to temptation till a party of bowler friends removed them for safety’s sake to an adjoining shop. No one was more surprised than the man himself when acquainted with his lapse from his usual care and attention to all details of his business!