POPULAR RANDWICK.—The Australian, like his New Zealand brother, is a devotee of horse racing and, if evidence were needed of it, this photograph would supply it. Glorious weather and tho thrill of magnificent racing made this year’s Derby Day at Randwick a memorable one. An enormous concourse of 80,000 witnessed notable performances by the favourites, Phar Lap (which created a record in winning the Derby) and Nightmarch, in the Epsom Handicap. This is a section of the vast crowd at the A.J.C. spring meeting. A NEW ZEALAND EEL-CHARMER.—One has to go abroad to learn something of one’s own land. Who, for instance, knew that we had an eelcharmer in New Zealand? The. “Daily Mirror”, illustrations bureau has supplied us with this photograph of Miss McCallum, a farmer’s daughter, of Takaka, Nelson, who “has the extraordinary faculty of calling large eels to her by striking the surface of the water. She feeds the eels and even strokes them.”

Evening Star, Issue 20316, 26 October 1929, Page 7

POPULAR RANDWICK.—The Australian, like his New Zealand brother, is a devotee of horse racing and, if evidence were needed of it, this photograph would supply it. Glorious weather and tho thrill of magnificent racing made this year’s Derby Day at Randwick a memorable one. An enormous concourse of 80,000 witnessed notable performances by the favourites, Phar Lap (which created a record in winning the Derby) and Nightmarch, in the Epsom Handicap. This is a section of the vast crowd at the A.J.C. spring meeting.

A NEW ZEALAND EEL-CHARMER.—One has to go abroad to learn something of one’s own land. Who, for instance, knew that we had an eelcharmer in New Zealand? The. “Daily Mirror”, illustrations bureau has supplied us with this photograph of Miss McCallum, a farmer’s daughter, of Takaka, Nelson, who “has the extraordinary faculty of calling large eels to her by striking the surface of the water. She feeds the eels and even strokes them.”