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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11927, 9 February 1917, Page 4

"DO IT NOW!" The, head of the firm was a hustler; therefore, being a hustler it annoyed him to sco other people who were not) hustlers idling about. One day, in a praiseworthy attempt) to awaken his languid staff, he purchased six signs, bearing in. their front tho stirring motto: " I>o it now I These he fixed in various parts of the office, and returned to his hustling to await results. The following Saturday tho hustler, sad of face, wearing an expression of defeated ardour, and with a hammer iu his right hand, gloomily detached each of the signs from the wall, and bore them despairingly to the dustbin. You see, during the week the cashier had gone off with £SOOO, the chief bookkeeper had eloped with the typist, three junior clerks had asked for a ri.i'e, and the office boy had gone off fto Hounelow Heath to become a higbwr y-