LECTURER GAVE UP
Now Makes Boomerangs (N.Z.P.A.-fteuter) BRISBANE. A university lecturer, Dr. Lorin Hawes, who got “fed up saying the same things time after time," has resigned his £2400-a-year job and now makes boomerangs for a living. Dr. Hawes, who is 34, has set up a factory at Mudgeeraba, on the Queensland Gold Coast, and with four assistants turns out about 500 boomerangs , a week. At the moment, he sells only by mail order and to wholesale firms, but he intends to open his factory as a tourist attraction and set aside about 15 acres of grassland to teach tourists to throw the boomerang. A doctor of philosophy, he was formerly a lecturer in chemical crystallography at the Australian National University, in Canberra. “I sat down one day and looked at my life and decided I could not face the thought of standing at my lectern saying the same things for the next 20 years," he said. “You can get awfully fed up saying the same things time and time again, even for more than £A3OOO a year.”
BRITISH ADVICE.—The British Post Office is advising the Norwegian Post Office on the planning of a major letter and parcel sorting office in Oslo.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30937, 18 December 1965, Page 18
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