DASH TO CASH CHEQUE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 775, 23 September 1929, Page 13

DASH TO CASH CHEQUE

300 MILE TRIP BY AIR BANK HOLIDAY DILEMMA A small family party of American visitors, making a tour of England and Scotland by private airplane, has reason always to remember the English August Bank Holiday. During the last holiday Mr. John W. Huiss-Drexel, a member of one of the best-known and wealthiest families in the United States, accompanied by his wife and 13-year-old son, left the Savoy Hotel for a week’s tour of the country by air and road. They arrived yesterday in Shropshire, and Mr. Huiss-Drexel motored to Shrewsbury to reinforce finnaciai supplies, which had run inconveniently low. He drew up at the bank which was his appointed agent. It was wrapt in complete Bank Holiday quiescence. .Repeated knockings and ringings were useless. It was then that young John Mortimer Huiss-Drexel came to the family rescue wun a masterly suggestion. His father agreed. Three hours later John, accompanied only by the pilot, arrived at Hendon Airdrome. in half an hour he ob tamed the comforting and adequate recognition of his father s signature at their London hotel, and m nail an hour more he was on his way back to his temporarily impoverished parents This is probably the first time that anyone has travelled 300 miies for the sole purpose of cashing a cheque. Young Mr. Huiss-Drexei gleefully explained at the hotel that had it not Deen for his own suggestion his parents would have had to fly back to London for their dinner.