CHAIN LETTERS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 296, 9 August 1932, Page 3

CHAIN LETTERS

(Post's Special Correspondent.)

BAD LUCK THREATENED IF SEQUENCE BROKEN.

CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. Bustling along in pursuit of its ambition to circle the globe three times,

another of those "chain letters," with its stern admonitions and glowing promises, has reached Christchurch — it must be a bright brand of chain letter, because, it asserts, Pola Negri owes her fortune to copying out in a conscientious manner the directions of the letter. . . . Recipdents of the letter, which, it is claimed, was tarted by one of the customary American generals (of artillery) in the equally-customary Flanders, are urged to make nine copies and distribute them among the friends to whom the sender wishes happiness. One Christchurch man, .who studied this letter this morning, smiled at the recollection of his retort to a similar invitation some years ago. He happemed to know the man who had passed on the letter, with its instruction that nine copies be made. So he wrote out the nine copies, and returned them to the sender of the flrst letter with the request that, in the spirit of the thing, he make 81 copies! That by the way. To return to the letter now in Christchurch. Bad luck, it asserts, will come within nine days to anyone breaking the ehain, and "some happy act" will befall, within nine days of the distribution of the copies, the enthusiast who obeys the letter. Rather sketchily, the letter deals with the exeellent or horrible happenings for which it has been resp'onsible. For instance, somebody in Victoria w°n "the big prize £2000" on the ninth day, and Mr. Collins's house was destroyed on the eigth day because he did not take serious notice of the letter — which must have been very sad for Mr. Collins. The renowned Messrs. Geoff and Duke won £250,000. And so to Pola Negri. There has been one break in the chain!