GOLDFISH AND TROUT.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18848, 10 April 1931, Page 11

GOLDFISH AND TROUT.

“FLOOD” IN SLY GROG SHOP. CUSTOMER WRECKS THE BAR. “There were young trout and goldfish everywhere,” said Mr Ross B. Leaman, of New York, when telling of a “flood” that wrecked one of New York's “speakeasies,” or sly-grog shops, not so long ago. Mr Leaman, who is on a world tour, arrived at Auckland recently. “The place in which the fun occurred was appropriately called the Aquarium,” he said. “The main bar is constructed wholly of glass, and is watertight, and inside there are hundreds of goldfish and young trout. At the height of the festivities one night a young man took a dislike to one of the occupants of the pond and let go a vigorous kick. Whether he imagined that he was further away from the bar or not I don’t know, but he shattered the glass and in a matter of seconds the water poured out and littered the floor of the saloon with live fish. Then began the hopeless task of getting the fish back into water before they died. The patrons who insisted on giving the management a hand were naturally the most inebriated of the bunch, and their efforts at picking up the flsh provided the best comedy I have ever seen. The men slipped and slithered about the floor, and even when they got their hands on to the flsh they had no chance of holding them unless they crushed them to death. There were trout and goldfish everywhere, and I wouldn’t have missed the fun for worldß.”