Suva Memories
pp. 47-48 · Read in the full issue
Letter to the Editor MR. HANCOCK is substantially correct in his description (in your issue of November) of the episode of the horse-trough. But he omitted the lady in the affair. One of the lads was a member of the Bank of N.S.W. staff, who bet the Bank of NZ lad, in the presence of the lady, that he was not game to dive into the horse-trough. He lost.
On the following New Year’s Day the lad who dived into the horse-trough espied an Indian laundryman’s delivery van outside the Grand Pacific Hotel. He promptly took charge and drove the van all over Suva, delivering the laundry indiscriminately, so that Mrs. Jones received Mrs. Smith’s washing, and Mrs.
Brown received that of Mrs. Jones. In
fact, there was such a mix-up that the episode nearly ended in a riot.
Needless to say, head office heard noth ing of these affairs. They were happy days.
That la has made the supreme sacri fice. Rest to his gallant soul!
I am, etc.,
Athol Matthews.
Auckland.
Mr. Jock Campbell, who was formerly a teacher at the Rabaul European School, has been manpowered cut of the AIF to take up a position at the Brisbane State High School.
Mr. A. I. Biggs, an assistant master of the Boys’ Grammar School, Suva, was recently admitted to the Colonial Service, and has now been transferred to the Gold Coast, W. Africa.