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Take A Bet. —There are four large stuffed heads over the bar at the Wollongong Club —a zebra, a laughing hyena, a water buck, an oryx. Underneath is a notice that Commander Stevens, R.A.N., has lent them to the club. Some of the members are prepared to bet a bottle of Scotch that he never asks for them back. 3J: sh Jj:
Accommodating.—This is the latest from America in New Look items: United Air Lines engineers have redesigned their loading stands (little flights of steps you walk up to get into a plane). An extra step has been added to accommodate lady passengers wearing the longer, tighter skirt.
It was not until late in the match that a woman cheering for the “Buller hockey team” in the blue and red jerseys against the heavier “Australian” team in white, found out at Westport on Wednesday that the hockey game had finished over an hour earlier and that she was witnessing an AH Black Rugby trial. —The Seeker
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1948, Page 4
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