A SHACKLETON STORY.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 9 December 1916, Page 7

A SHACKLETON STORY.

Lieutenant Shackletcn was moved by the highly successful gathering at his lecture on Monday night in Wellington to tell his experience of an anything but successful meeting in Leith some years ago. "I had spent £5 in all on it —£210 s of that amount in advertising; and, thinking I could well afford it, I drove over from a neighbouring town in a Cab. I told the cabman to wait till after the lecture, but when I entered the hall I found there only one drunken man, two old women and two or three children. (Laughter). I went down and told the cabman that if he could find somebody to look after the cab he could come and -hear the lecture; but he said he preferred to look after his cab himself. (Laughter). I -went steadily through the whole lecture, and first one came in and then another, till at the close there were twenty-five people there-. (Laughter). When I went home my wife asked me how much I had made by the lecture, and I said 255. There were 25 people there; but, with the cab, it cost me £7 10s. 'Well,' she said, 'you can knock 2s off the 255, because I sent the housemaid and the cook to hear you." (Laughter).