A MEETING AMD A MEMORY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 280, 15 August 1918, Page 2

A MEETING AMD A MEMORY

"It,was a beast of a day, extremely cold, and tho snow was driving in a hurricane wind, when a captain, seeing soino likely signs of shelter, called at our shanty, and asked to stay awhilo until he could get a lorry for . Na-1 turally wo were only too pleased to shelter him and.made him as comfortable as possible under tho circumstances.

After ho had' thawed, the following conversation was carried on:— "I suppose you are a fully qualified chartered accountant, and everyone else in your unit?" "No, only our officers." "What, then, were you before tho war?" "Commercial Clerk." "Whero?" "Cadbury." "Woro you, really? At Bournville? Ah, I lememhor Bournville. Spent tho lhappiest.day I ovor remember there." "Iteally?" • ' "Yea, I went with tho British Association. I can see tho children dancing round tho maypolo now—tho play *in thbso lovely grounds. Oh, it was tophole." ' '

"Of course, I told him that I-helped to entertain them, and for a quarter of an hour spent a very happy time—not in France—but Bournville, and it was. surprising what a lot he had remembered after some eight years, recalling oven the box of chocolate that he took home. The lorry arrived, and he was soon white with snow, and I wondered if his spirit was still at Bournville in the sunshine."

Bournvillo supplies arc strictly rationed. Britain's, necessities and consequent prohibition of export of foodstuffs alone provent Bournvillo Cocoa and Cadbury's Chocolate from reaching New Zealand at 'present.