Timbuktu’s Counterpart

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3176, 30 September 1942, Page 8

Timbuktu’s Counterpart

“What we want to know is where we can find this place called Waipukurau,” was the first, question asked by many American marines on their arrival in New Zealand. Repeated questions about Waipukurau solicited an inquiry as to the reason for such interest in the Central Hawke’s Bay centre, and the reply was somewhat amusing, “Well, buddy, the name Waipukurau is used in America in the sames way as we find Timbuktu is used in this country and that is why we ( all figure on going there before we leave this 'Dominoion.”

Picture Theatre Incident A man at a Christchurch picture theatre caused some annoyance to patrons in the after-show rush on a recent night by endeavouring to push his way.against the current of people back to his seat. (By sheer weight of numbers he was slowly forced along the aisle in spite of his opposition, but he eventually escaped by taking refuge along an empty row of seats and finding his way back to where he had sat by climbing over the’ rows. Then the reason for wanting to return was known. He had taken his shoes off during the performance and when the picture ended unexpectedly he had been swept out of his seat into the aisle before he had had time to put them on again.