A Farmer’s Trick
Many tributes to the business ability of Mr W. Machin -were paid when the staff of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury, Ltd., gathered to bid him farewell on the eve of his retirement. Mr Machin replied with a story of how a shrewd farmer, whose assets were being examined by the Adjustment Commission, had made him an innocent party to a deception. Just before the sitting of the commission, he said, the farmer had given him an envelope and asked him to put it in his pocket. In cross-examination the farmer was asked if he had anything in the Post Office Savings Bank. “ Not a farthing,” he replied. Later he asked Mr Machin for the envelope telling him that it contained his Post Office savings, carefully withdrawn in anticipation of the question.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20951, 2 November 1939, Page 9
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138A Farmer’s Trick Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20951, 2 November 1939, Page 9
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