SEASIDE EXTRAS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 18, 5 March 1915, Page 5 (Supplement)

SEASIDE EXTRAS.

When I received my seaside bill i found the items many— Fourpence for " use of serviette, ' "Ten pins supplied"—one penny. j :r "cleaning boots" just half-a----c row n, For " oolish" sixpence more : And for'the "baths" I didn't have Was entered one-and-four. Tliat I'm given to reflection Was soon found out, alas! One shilling was the debit for " use of looking glass. - ' And eighteennenco "for cruet"' S 'cmed sufiiciviit, did it not 'i Vet I found an entry, threepence For " refilling mustard pot.' f raised no protestation— The wonder seemed to mc Willi con-'iments so cosily ! thought the charges heavy, i. own I. did, until I found they'd charged but threepence Fir hi.ikiie; out my bill. MONKY WA: XT KYERYTHINC:. Jin,', livlba fell-: a story of'a I'ttlci American nrlliniifr'rp. " lie •nloi>;kh! at the Havcv I lot. i with \\'< tutor an ! j I'overne •;'." sh ■ said. "■": 1 one n!i T '! i.h i two rrjiardian-'! went to the < , ! l °!' il i , I; avina: him alone in ir>. apartment \\ itli 1,. ■ foU A':o"at nine o'clock his bell la-in furiously. I! duln'l understand the tel-- ! phone, and one ( ,l the a-.<'stani- metiaig •■< Inured lo \v< su't and knocked. •!>!d -;a rir.2 s'r?' he ■ '; -A. 'Y >.' said the lilt!,, fellow, T'lea-o ; end someone to hear in. say my "Talk about your Ions; hours. 1 know •x ponple cf hand-; in a factory that nev- : er -ten dav or n ; ghl all lie year round." " fniprssilih ! AWier-r" l "0;i tlw factory clock.''