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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 177, 1 May 1903, Page 4

Host Jerry G'Driscoll, of the Commonwealth Hotel at New Plymouth, tells a good yarn against himself (says the Auckland Ohservei). Just before the last races there a well-known nice course habitue appeared in his hotel and offered a fine fat goose for s<|le. Jerrv paid him five shillings for it, and directed him to take it through to the yard. Ofl' marched the vendor towards the back of the house, but instead of depositing the bird he carried it on to the Criterion Hotel, where he sold it once more. The process was repeated again and again, and finally the daring confidence man returned to the unsuspicious Jerry in the dusk of the evening, and sold it to him again as being anothtgoose, this time for half a crown. The proceeds of that day’s goose-sales amounted to about <£3. And, worse still, it turned out that the man had never owned the goose at all, but had carried on his little swindle with one that he had stolen out of the O'Driscoll fowl-yard But mark the sequel. With the .£3 the sporting man went to the races. His investments on the totalisator that day netted him some <£l3. Next day he paid penitental visits to the various publicans he had victimised, frankly told the whole story, and returned to each man the money of which he had been defrauded. Jerry, of course, has the goose as a memento of the incident. Hadn’t he paid for it three times over ? It is estimated (says the Dunedin Star) that by thirteen hotels being deprived of their licenses and hy an additional loss of T 5 on each of the remaining houses by the substitution of ten o’clock for eleven o’clock licenses, the city revenue will he depleted to the ex'tent of something like .£750. It is understood that to meet this deficiency the Finance Committee propose to invite the city solicitors to draft a bill (which the Government will be asked to take charge of) giving them authority to raise the annual license on the remaining hotels—the fee probably being made .£6O, in lieu of £4O as at present.

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