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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 6 May 1911, Page 10

In America they have a fine new name for the person who is always nosing into other people's business. They call him a "rubber." An Englishman in a New York street car the other day was attracted by the extraordinary appearance of a baby in arms whose mother was seated opposite him. He could not keep his eyes off the i ~ child, and the mother, growing angry, p leaned forward and hissed out "Rubber!" "Thank the Lord, madam " exclaimed the Englishman, much relieved; "I thought it was real." I