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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 300, 2 October 1939, Page 2

Giving it a Fly! Tims Ho! Mr. Isaac Walton, the Compleat Angler, giving it a fly? Mu : Well met, Piscator, Pm throwing a pretty * dry* ' that *lights on the water more natural than tlte natural . Tims Too early in the season for ‘dry’. Let me recommend the humble ‘wet’—the good old * chuck and chance it’. Mus Aye! But there*s one thing we can’t chuck and chance. ’Tis dry work getting wet. Time to anoint the fish*s head with a brew of Timaru—a noggin of angler*s anodyne . Tight lines! ■ tJS. No Finny Business! Thj above is the first fish tail ever told without mention of the one that got away * - GLOWING^ ALEwSTOUf THE FMFNDUFST OttMNH Iff YWf WOfULth Bnmd and Bottled with teeing tan ty NX BREWERIES LTP. ( Tlmsru Irtnch.

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A Truly National Magazine “The Railways” October Issue Yes, New Zealanders, your “Railways Magazine” is national in the best sense of the word a real treat for yourselves and your kin in other countries. Here me some of the October features::— “ Beauty and the Boast,” humorous philosophy written and illustrated by Ken Alexander. v “Progress of New Zealand Industries,” by 0. N. Gillespie. “Treaty of Waitangi Recalled,” by Isobel Andrews. “The Life-History of Whitebait,” byi Ella Wall. “The Tragic History of the Ship ‘Boyd,’” by J. T. Inkster. “Sport in. War-Time,” ( (2s years ago), by W,. F. Ingram. A chat on books, original verse, very helpful'notes and notions for women. 60 pictures. 6d At Book-Shops and News Agencies 6d