POTATO DEAL

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1930, Page 2

POTATO DEAL

i A grocer who takes the cheeriest view of life and who avers that New ieahuul is about to take a commercial ieap forward complains comically: “It’s ;rue that people are necessarily being i n<ive economical For instance, wo; sell many small quantities of goods for :ash to people who used to buy larger jnantities on credit, We don’t mind, >f course, but it is a sign of the times, Astounding what a lot oF sixpennyworths we sell—gets rather tiring, but it’s good biz, after all, I was almost startled the other day to see the little son of ail excellent customer come ill ind ask for ‘threepennyworth of speck'd spuds.’ J said, ‘Well, son, we don’t as a rule sell less than a shillingsworth of potatoes; did your mother—” And the little customer interrupted, ‘Oli, they aren’t for mum; they for me new pistol!’ He exhibited the weapon. It seems yon simply dig the point of the gun into the potato and it is loaded on the popgun principle. A gentleman who received a pellet of specked potato on the lobe of his ear assures me that the accuracy of some of these rising gunmen is astounding!”