Peter does his bit for the Catholic Church.

 You may know him as The Curmudgeon, a guy who runs a very successful blog with two regular readers. Many don't know that, in the late 1960s, he was known as 'Wafer Boy'. At this time he was running an 'on the side' trade in church wafers.

In the 1960s Peter was a sacristan at a Catholic school in Wellington and a close associate of Father Bliss. Peter found that there was quite a demand from the boys at the school for slightly stale wafers and his job gave him a plentiful supply. You have to realize that, in those days, the variety of snack biscuits available was much smaller. This enterprise made Peter one of the richest boys in 5P in 1968. Really, for him, sitting School Certificate that year was just an unneeded distraction from his business venture. Father Bliss had high hopes that Peter would enter the priesthood and eventually get a job in a parish where he could run his own church shop.

Peter was already proving those wrong who thought that boys in the P classes, who didn't get to study Book-keeping, couldn't possibly run a business. He would later go on to be very successful in the wine industry and was probably one of the forces behind the Cleanskin brand.

Unfortunately, Peter didn't make it into the priesthood but he never really lost his interest in communion hosts. Many, many years later, while helping Robert out in a church shop, he saw a window of opportunity. 

"It's pretty boring working in this church shop and selling holy pictures to crazy old ladies and condoms to the clergy. What if I resurrected the good old wafer trade? After all, Catholics are pretty big on resurrection." Peter thought.

It wasn't hard, since he had to stay behind each Sunday to tidy the church shop, to get access to where the wafers were kept.

In the wine industry Peter's special skill, as well as the one for drinking the product and then verbally going on about it, had been in marketing. His idea was to present the wafers as a sort of Holy Biscuit.

Of course, as with the wine, it wasn't long before he was sampling the product.

This is a story of a boy from 3P who, while not actually making the priesthood, saw a niche for himself. This was a guy who could see opportunities and possessed the necessary skills.

It won't be long before everyone at church will be swallowing Peter's Communion Treats.