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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 73, 23 March 1918, Page 1

A correspondent writes : “ Wlmt about this for luck. A Moi'i’insvillo resident at the Te Arolm races asked for a ticket on No. 1. When he had left tho machine he found he had been given a ticket on No. 2. He said many hard things about the tote assistants, until after the race when No. 2 was the winner and No. 1 was never in the race. Then he reckoned his luck was in. Good office boys are at a premium just now, and the one engaged by certain business man certainly did not come up to the pre-war standard. lie sat at a little desk in the boss’s room and 1 that was about all he seemed cai>able of doing. One afternoon a business caller arrived. “ I want to speak to you privately,” he said to the principal, with a glance towards the office boy.” “ Oh, that’s all right,” replied the other wearily; “he doesn’t know lie’s there.”