High-powered American salesmanship assisted the cause of “Miss Greece” in the Christchurch carnival recently. Two United States servicemen bought a few shillings worth of tickets in various raffles from a street seller, and then offered to help her. Their methods were highly successful with passers-by and, when they, left the ticket-seller, who had hardly had time to realise what they were doing, they had increased her takings by more than £ 1 in less than five minutes.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430413.2.32
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1943, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
76Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1943, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in