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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 63, 14 August 1944, Page 1

B.B.C. BROADCASTS.

LIONS PREFER VENISON. From Pilgrim’s Rest, Transvaal, this story reached Cyril Watling, in London, and he included it in one of the newsletters he broadcasts each, week from the 8.8. C. for South Africans in Britain and the Middle East. A nwning official, Mr J. Malan, slept on the veldt one night during a trip up country. He was awakened by what looked like the form of a lion standing over him. It passed, and telling himself “it couldn’t be true,” he turned over and went to sleep again. But when he woke in the morning he found that indeed it could be, and had been, true. He found the spoor of a big lion, a spoor that led from some bushes to his car and passed right over the spot where he had been sleeping. The lion had stepped over him, gone to the car, and carried off a hunk of venison. How glad Mr Malan must have been that he had brought that venison. FAIRY GODMOTHER TO A FOOTBALLER. The most surprised n*an in Gibraltar recently was probably a 21-years-old 1..A.M. serving with the Fleet Air Arm. His dearest wish came true in a nearmagical fashion when he was told over the air that a football had been obtained for him.

A relative of his wrote to the producer (Joan Gilbert) of the 8.8. C. programme “Hello Gibraltar” to say that he had tried by all means, both locally and elsewhere, to get a football for his “gang” at the Naval Station on the Rock, whore he’d been for two years, and he’d become desperate about getting a ball.

It appears that the L.A.M. (Davies by name) was a keen sportsmpn and athlete. He had been awarded the Boy Scouts V.C. at 11 years of age for lifes? ving at sea, and later was a representative of Britain at the Boy Scout Jamboree in Holland. His difficulty over the football was mentioned to Bar-

rington Dalby, the well-known sports commentator of the programme. He made enquiries and William (“Bill”) Voiscy, the A 11-England football team titiner and manager of the Mi. 1 wall Football Club, offered to give the last football in his possesion because he Lad a lather special feeling about lads in Gibialtar—he*has a son serving there. Th me Guard duties prevented Mr Voi«=ey from coming to the microphone tu “present” the ball himself, so Miss Gilbert did it on his behalf.

But the probleai wasn’t entirely settled even then. She has got the ball, but how to get it to Gibraltar i< another puzzle to be solved. No doubt she will find someone to take it.