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Free Lance, Volume XVII, Issue 916, 1 February 1918, Page 15

Dear Lance : Seeing that all the local big wigs are agitated over the milk difficulty, may I offer one ancient but simple solution. Is it not a fact that our milk suppliers are like Pharoah's daughter? They are all engaged in drawing a little profit (prophet) out of the water.—Yours, etc., Bii/L Muggs.

Dear Free Lance, —Ee swimming across Wellington Harbour, cold water, and sharks, I am not sure of date, but a big Dutchman. named Plaacke, roughly 6ft 7in high and 17 stone live weight, bobbed tip near the Queen's or. Railway Wharf aboiit 24 years ago and -said he'd swum there from Petone. Remember seeing the man and he looked as though he could swim from Wainui into a milk clearing station, if wanted. The same giant could lash out his hands on.shore, and had a mill with Bill Fisher, son of the late Geo. Fisher, M.H.R., in a room in Cottle-ville-terrace (near Tinakori-road). It

cost more than a quid to see the go, so couldn't be present, but the kind police stopped the scrap when limbs aiid other features started to fly ofl\ Bill Fisher at that time was about 6ft iin and a , 14-stone Rugby forward. ■ .To back stroke t oswimmihg: Some years later one of .the Freybergs—Oscar, 1 think—when the yacht lie was aboard got becalmed say, Somes Island, used to memorise or take a parcel, of messages to relatives and best girls of the crew on Sundays. He'd flop over the side and paddle ashore near Oriental Bay; deliver the goods; say the yacht would arrive later, and then, go to church- —Yours, etc., An Old Sport.