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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 23 September 1915, Page 4

An amusing story is being told of aticket which did not stay in its right place. The comedy was enacted in a New Plymouth shop window, in which was exhibited a leather waistcoat with a small ticket attached indicating that five thousand of these were needed for our representatives at the front. Needless to say, the waistcoat was a source of great interest to relatives and: friends mf soldiers; but even so, the attention it attracted was as noth-ing-to the consternation ; the' elusive ticket caused later in the day. By- ' some means it was dispra'Cetf 7 ' and’fell on to some feminine garments of. a , , flimsy nature, and for somo ; few hours - i a delicate . article .of clothing which . shall be nameless (it was white and had; pretty lace trimmings) bore the , proud announcement: “Five of these wanted for our soldiers, ” At the ,Auckland Police Court yester- „ dar, George S. Maekay, clothier, lately carrying on business in Queen Street* was charged with incurring a debt of £SO when ho could have had no reasonable or probable expectation of beingable to pay. He was sentenced to one , month imprisonment without hard labour. Mr. Frazer, S.M., remarked that,, he had i>D doubt that defendant intend,'. ,jp ed to. he honest, but the law protected ..,4 tho commerical-community from, 'rash ..«■ ■ optimism that gambled on a more chance of getting o.ut of difficulties,.instead of putting the position clowly ■ before creditors.