WATCH YOUR OYSTERS!

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 72, 16 June 1927, Page 14

WATCH YOUR OYSTERS!

POSSIBILITY OF PEARLS A pearl of great price has been found at Deal, England, under rather amusing circumstances. On Deal seafront there is a Utfin cafe whose proprietor, Mr. Georgs Appleby, sells none but the finest Whit* stable natives. Among his many clients is a wellknown resident named Mrs. JusodKerr, of Walmer, Kent. A few day» ago she sent her chauffeur for ntf usual consignment of oysters. In proprietor’s absence Mrs. Appleby pr*“ pared the oysters and handed them t* the waiting chauffeur. At dinner that evening Mrs. Krill fork struck against something hard i* one of the oysters. She was amazed to discover a P*” the size of an ordinary pea fir®*! fixed in the shell. She personally took the Driver’s oyster establishment in * cad illy, London, where she formed by the management had never come across so fine a specimen. “I have taken the pearl to a L o ™* 0 ® jeweller, and am having it set in gold ring for my daughter,” saia m Kerr. “It is of considerable value Revisiting the; cafe, the remarked to the proprietor, way, Mr. Appleby, in the last lot „ oysters you sent me there w ls ~71 Mr. Appleby interrupted with **ro* apologies, saying that he hoped ing was wrong with any of the “Oh, dear no!” replied Mrs. K “quite the contrary. I only cam tell you that in one of those oysters found a magnificent pearL”