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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4540, 16 March 1923, Page 4

To some men’ experience, which teaches by examples, attaches nothing, said Captain Thomas, in his address tp the New Zealand Club at Wellington. He knew of men >vho had fought in France and Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, and then had gone home and sat by their firesides, just glad to slip into the old habits, and with little or nothing to say of their experiences. It reminded him of a story of a young couple he bad heard. Whilst the husband was shaving, the wife, in attending to some flowers in a window-box, had fallen out and broken her neck. The husband went to the window, saw that his wife was dead on the pavement below, and then going back into the room called out to the cook that only one egg would be required for breakfast. Captain Thomas said that he was afraid that the war had affected some people in the same way. A Patea business man in ,his haste forwarded an account without any price being stated. In retuqn (states ■the Press) he received from his client, his blank cheque, unsigned of epurse. After a hearty laugh he filled in the cheque for the amount he felt ,was due, aiiit returned it, together with the account properly made out.