48-hour card game sets record
PA Tauranga Cigarettes and coffee : helped keep three Tauranga imen awake while they set a New Zealand pontoon-play-ing record during the weekend. i Messrs P. L. Ellison, I. R. • Cameron and D. H. Egan /started the marathon card J game at 8 p.m. on Thursday land played until 8 p.m. on ■•Saturday. . j This establishes a New (Zealand pontoon playing Irecord of 48 hours, but does I not rival the world record of •192 hours. The men were • allowed five-minute breaks , (every hour. | According to Mr Ellison they decided to try to set 'the record after a recent | friendly game of cards be'i tween them lasted all night.
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Press, 9 April 1980, Page 5
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