LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1926, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

A meeting <»! the Kiwi Junior Football Club will be held in Mclntosh's Club rooms to-morrow night at 8 o’clock. All players and intending players are requested to attend.—Advt. Evidently Chocolate Alley at the Exhibition (says the ‘•(lingo Daily limes”) is no place for the trusting, unsuspecting individual who does not mind doing a favour for a stranger. Take the sad ease of the cheerful citizen who decided that he would win a box of chocolates to take borne to his wife am! children as a. pleasant si rpri.se. Alter an expenditure of .ilmitl 15s the gods of chance smiled upon him and a box as nearly as big as himself came his way. "Yun're pretty lucky, aren’t you:" said a voice at Ids elbow. It was a woman, "Maybe, but it. cost me a bit,” the winner replied as lie prepared to move oil. "Well you threw skilfully, anyway,” the woman went. on. ‘‘Would you mind having a try for titer'” It was hardly the tiling to refuse, so lie bad another try. while the lady held bis chocolates. As be expelled, the second effort was fruitless, and lie tinned round to recover bis chocolates, lint the lady bad cone, and so had his chocolates.