His First Car

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 6

His First Car

IN the days before ..-Lizzies, Gerald : Jones, of Auckland, was, for a •while, the owner of what was then ( entitled to be called'a car, but at that time the shakebone affairs on wheete were more, fickle, and. Geraldvon one occasion stood in-/ the crowd which gathered about his .contraption, as eager as anyone to see the "owner" turn up and take it away from the main street. , , V To look at, he might remind ; anyone of old man m the corner" of, detective fame, for he wears. .his hair al--most a la Lloyd George, and a pair/ of glasses act as window panes to. a pair of eyes which betoken; a pleasant^ droll, sense of humor, and a keen. perception of ' beauty and proportion. „ ". When not engaged m his. profession* that of architecture, he will most likely be discovered behinti a camera; and, at that hobby- he'is a fiend. Having shot his subject on to plate, or film, he sets', to work. on. the enlarger then with, brushes and pigments, and more brushes, he makes a most infernal mess for hburs on end, on sheets of paper, until somewhere m the a.m. hours he emerges with something .which gets "hung on .the .walls of one of the salons of an exhibition m London, Canada or America, or who knows, France maybe?' ■ ' ''■',■ ,: ■■:.■' . •-. ' :' : ■' •■■ Withal he is *&] genial companion, has a dry wit, can "see a joke against himself, and has never, been known to butt his stocky little frame m where he is not wanted. ' „