A Farmer’s Trick
Many tributes to the business ability of Mr. W. Machin were paid when the staff of the New Zealand Farmers’ Cooperative Association of Canterbury, Limited, gathered in Christchurch to bid him farewell on the eve of his retirement. Mr. Machin replied with the story of. how a shrewd farmer, whose assets were being examined by the Adjustment Commission, had made him an innocent party to a deception. Just before the sitting of the commission, he said, the farmer had given him an envelope and asked him to put it in his pocket. In crossexamination the farmer was asked if he had anything in the Post Office Savings Bank. “Not a farthing,” lie j replied. Later he asked Mr. Machin for the envelope, telling him that it contained his Post Office savings, carefully withdrawn in anticipation of the question.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 4 November 1939, Page 4
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141A Farmer’s Trick Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 4 November 1939, Page 4
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