HOUSE-HUNTING COMEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2170, 31 August 1920, Page 4

HOUSE-HUNTING COMEDY.

A recent house-hunting comedy ns it was told to me, says a writer in the Auckland Star: A man in search of a rented house saw an advertisement for one in the morning paper as he went to work early in the morning;. .Jumping- oil’ the car immediately, he sprinted for the nearest slot telephone, and called up the agent at his home. The agent was in In’s hath, hut was promptly summoned for the more important business at the ’phone, and the promise of the house was obtained. Reaching- town, (he happy tenant thought he would go round to the agent’s" ollico and clinch the bargain in writing. He found the office tilled with a crowd of people after the house. When the agent arrived he had to break it to the waiting pursuers of the llickering hope that he had let the place over the wire, and had to meet the charge that, as the advertisement said apply to his office, lie had no right to do so. However, the crowd melted away, and the successful man, who during this time had effaced himself, went in and completed the transaction. When he apologised for disturbing the agent in his bath, the latter replied: “Oh, that's all right. You were only just in time. Another man rang up just as you finished, and I was called to the telephone eight times before I linished breakfast.” The moral is, when you hear of a house to - let, sprint. The rent of (he house, by the way, was 355. Out of curiosity 1 turn up the rent tables in the Abstract of Statistics, and I find that the average rent for a house of the same class in Auckland is IDs -Id, which recalls the saying that there are three kinds of -lies: Lies, d d lies, and statisI tics.