THAT TRANSFERRING AGENT OR THE EXPLOSION OF A MYTH.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43326, 16 May 1908, Page 2

THAT TRANSFERRING AGENT OR THE EXPLOSION OF A MYTH.

II 1 From all we could gather there came a day when that. Transferring Agent took his tall hat and departed, leaving the nightmare-ridden staff wiping its combined brow and congratulating itself that it had survived his sojourn in its midst. But, alas, how short-lived is human happiness ! In the very midst of the mutual congratulations of the editor, printer, special reporter, and office boy came a bomb, in the shape of a telegram which reid “ Returning, May 12th, important business. —That Transferring Agent.” He only left on April 29th. What’s he after now ? cried the staff, “ is Te Aroha or The Dominion, or possibly The Universe to be revolutionized with this particular, luckless office as the fulcrum.”

“ Well, gentlemen,” said the editor, smiling, “ I propose it be attempted, that is obviously what he designs.” The editor, it appears, was right, for That Transferring agent had actually been laying a plot to advance the place, even before he had transferred himself to Auckland. As a matter of fact he had obtained estimates for extensive alterations to the office .buildings, and was now returning to put the work in hand. Locally made bricks were to be used, and local labour employed, for that Transferring Agent held theories, one of them being to spend where you receive your support, and pay cash. J. C. Allen, Esq., having put the matter of these alterations, which were to transform the building into a suite of 4 shops, with plate-glass windows eleven feet high to the main street, the office running the whole width of said shops to the rear, into that Transferring Agent’s hands, that Transferring Agent was determined to carry all out in thoroughly first-rate style, and make the building one Auckland need not be ashamed of.

There is no saying what may not be a’brewing beneath a tall hat. After all our unkind suspicions it is conspicuously clear that That Transferring Agent has no weakness for any hole-and-corner methods. He is availing himself of the local electrical lighting facilities, he intends that presently the tiiachinery of the printing room shall be improved, and the building, we hear, is to be made thoroughly sanitary. All the faces are to be pulled ,out and the building is to he subdivided by brick walls. Ventilation and sanitation are to be special features, and altogether the establishment is to be metamorphosed, all by way of introducing a general local revolution. Truly, Te Aroha there is a future before thee ! Strive not to evade the unescapable ! For'mind thee, [the Future is actually in front of thee, and thon cans’t arrive nowhither without encountering her. See that thou make not light of her, lest she in turn hold thee, unambitious, unaspiring, unattempting thee up to the scorn of the unborn! Such are doubtless the cognitions which have shaped themselves within the round ramparts of “That Transferring Agent’s ” tall hat ! (To be concluded in our next)