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Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16627, 24 October 1925, Page 5

A Wanganui lady had an embarrassing if not unenviable experience whilst on a. visit to Wellington last week. The night was dark and stormy—the sort of night that murderers and thieves choose for their evil deeds, and policemen pace their beats with firmer tread and ears and eyes alert. One guardian of the law wlio was .patrolling an important business thoroughfare sa\v a young lady drinking from a bottle which was being held for her by her male companion. The policeman tapped the young fellow on the shoulder and informed him that “that sort of thing wasn’t done here.” He grasped the bottle, sniffed, hut was doomed to disappointment. The bottle contained a popular brand of cough mixture! The bottle was handed back without a word, and the young man resumed his administration of the medicine to his fair companion. The young lady states that never again will she relieve her cough in the streets of Wellington, especially in the dark.