A HELENSVILLE COMEDY

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4489, 9 August 1930, Page 4

A HELENSVILLE COMEDY

“SOMEBODY SICK." How they were roused in the mobile of the night by a woman wearing night attire, who asked for spirits for somebody sick, is told by residents of Helensville. On Thursday night last a woman, clad only in a nightdress, did the rounds of the ‘town awakening people asking I hem for spirits. Dm* man said that he was awakened in the early hours by a knock at the door. On asking who it was he was answered, "Brandy or whisky for someone sick." No name was given, and the voice was muffled. The householder went to the hack of (lie house, where lie discovered that ihe decanter was empty. He gave the woman this information from where he was, not bothering to wait until he got hack to the door. By the time he reached the door his visitor was gone. This man went hack to lied thinking the affair strange. When he went to town the next morning' he discovered that a number of his neigh,boars had undergone a similar experience. There must have been a considerable number of people sick. One would-be helper gave the visitor a valuable Jlask on tin* assn race that it would be returned in the morning. He has not seen it since. The last house-owner visited said the woman appeared the worse for liquor. The matter has given rise to discussion in the town, and the theory is that the woman was do.-: Hied under her nightdress, and was using a motor-car. She was apparently a stranger to town.