WHEN THE LADIES MET.

Shannon News, 7 April 1925, Page 3

WHEN THE LADIES MET.

‘TAKE OFF THOSE STOCKINGS.” AUCKLAND. April 1. ‘Those are my stockings you are wearing. You stole them from the bathing sheds while I was swimming. And you had the cheek to stuff these dirty things in my shoes (producing a pair of stockings the worse for wear). I suppose they are yours; they look like the rest of your clothes.” This demand to ‘‘stand and deliver’’ ; was instantly obeyed by a girl as she was proceeding up Church street- at I Onehunga from the beach on March 21st last. The call toi surrender the I purloined articles began 'while the speaker was a few yards behind the 1 girl, and by the time they came together |he latter immediately sat down on the kerbstone and parted with the goods. Court proceedings followed, and the offender was placed on probation.

The retirement is announced of Mr 1,. C. E. Hamaan, chief accountant of the New Zealand railways. Mr Hamaan was educated in Dunedin, and joined the ’ railways in 1884. He leaves Wellington shortly for San Francisco, and while in America will represent the railways of New Zealand at the annual convention of the American Accounting Bailway Officers’ Association. Mr and Mrs Hamaan will then visit England before returning home.