AUTOMATIC FRUIT SELLERS
Street hawkers of fruit who operate after closing hours are very disturbed by the latest automatic box, which provides you with fruit at allhours (says a writer in the Morning Post). But Ido not think they need worry unduly, for the acquisition of fruit from one of these boxes is a very trying business. You are confronted with an array of little glass doors, behind each of which rests, on a shelf, a different kind of fruit. Having dropped your sixpenny bit in the slit you pull down the selected door and retrieve, let us say, six apples. Under them is a paper bag, slightly damp. You now have to hold the apples, open the bag, and get the fruit in. You immediately bebcome painfully conscious of two things; the fact that you have only two hands and that the law prohibits your using your feet to remove the crowd which watches you with amusement.
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Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3185, 7 August 1930, Page 2
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158AUTOMATIC FRUIT SELLERS Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3185, 7 August 1930, Page 2
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