A GOOD “SPREE”
PAUPER ENJOYS TRIP TO PARIS.
LONDON, December 3
This is the stoiy of the “really good spree” of John James Latham, u Devonshire man, who, at the age ot 64, believes in spending money when you have it. Early this year lie left -the Barnstaple Poor Law institution, Devonshire, with more than £3OO, received as back pay from the estate of Mr C. W. Mayer, of Philadelphia, for whom he once worked as coachman. Latham, who had been in the institution for ten years, went to Brighton and Southend-on-Sea, and then to Paris. Five months alter he left Barnstaple he returned to this countiy “without a bean.” “I had my fling and don’t regret it,” said Latham. “I once toured the Continent as a coachman, and I looked up some old friends in Paris. “I stayed at fine hotels,” he said, “drove about in taxicabs, and saw more theatre shows than I can remember.
“Why save money for a, rainy day when there is shelter from the wet?” he concluded,, as the dinner gong sounded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1932, Page 2
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178A GOOD “SPREE” Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1932, Page 2
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