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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5079, 24 January 1927, Page 4

A good story is told of an experience of a Gisborne racehorse owner who has just returned from a visit, to Auckland. White in the northern city he went one evening to a benefit dance 'for the deaf and dumb, although not himself a dancing enthusiast. Observing a lady sitting by herself, he took pity on her and by means of various signs intimated that he wished to dance with her. The dance was finished in silence, but later in the evening the Gisborne man noticed that the lady was still sitting out, and a'fter repeating the signs he again partnered her on the floor. When the band struck up the supper waltz he Saw that she was without a partner and going over, pointed to his mouth and repeated the dance signs once more. The lady acquiesced, but as the couple, were dancing a young man approached them and said to the lady, “I say ,Glo, this is our dance, isn’t it ?” "Yes,” replied the sportsman’s “deaf and dumb” partner, ‘‘but I had to dance with this poor deaf and dumb individual.”