A SPRING JEST
AN “INFERNAL” MACHINE IT DIDN’T GO OFF The infernal machine lias come to Auckland. A city solicitor found one sitting on liis office doorstep the other day. Naturally he felt annoyed that he should have been chosen from among Auckland’s thousands for quick dispatch by such a noisy method. He is a sympathetic soul, too, and thought of the feelings of the charwoman who cleans his office. But the machine didn’t go off. It wouldn't go off. It couldn’t. The infernal machine was a, fake. A fellow solicitor had left it there as a bright joke to enable his companion-in-law to bc;gln the day with a good laugh. The machine was ingeniously composed of some old electric torch batteries which had no more power in them than a bottle of flat soda-water; yards of fine wire and a messy-looking substance which was supposed to be dynamite. In reality the substance would have been suitable for a dog with distemper. It was the kind of joke which Is usually perpetrated on April 1„ and as a joke it went off quite successfully.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 13
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184A SPRING JEST Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 13
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