Adventures of a New Chum
|? was the Customs man who started it all. Robert Lake had been off the boat that brought him to New Zealand for only about a minute when he felt the first warm flush of gold fever. "Go to Central Otago," the Customs man said. "Gold for. the asking-can’t go wrong." This, thought Mr. Lake, was something. He’d been in the country only a few minutes, and already he was practically a millionaire. This is the starting point for six short talks-‘"light essays" their author calls them-in
which Mr. Lake discusses amusingly not only how to find a gold mine, but his experience of baby-sitting, working as an insurance agent (for one day), helping at a children’s party, cooking, and Life in the Great Outdoors. To what extent Mr. Lake’s talks are really based on his own experience he hasn’t told us, but it is at least true that- he came to New Zealand from England last year. He is now a business man in Dunedin. This series will start in 2YZ’s For the Countrywoman at 2.45 p.m, on £FS Na day, July 21.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 17
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188Adventures of a New Chum New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 17
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