ROLLER SKATING
, THE COLOSSEUM RINK. Excellent attendances were recorded at all sessions at the Colosseum Skating Rink, Vivian street, yesterday. During the night session a half-mile race among the bluejackets of H.M.S. Chatham resulted in Leading Seaman Wilson winning easily, with O. D. T. J. More, second, S. T. O. J. Clarke a close thirl. The winner’s time was 2min 22sec. The rink will be open for four nessions, as usual, to-day.
A London hen laid an ©ggr which weighed 3{oz and measured 3)in by 3in! For a week it dad nobbing but cackle. Then it produced an egg no bigger than a walnut 1 ' Admirals, commodores, and certain other officers, -when boarding vessels of the fleet, aro "'piped over' the side" by the Ibo’sun, an old navy custom, the origin of which is unknown. Fireproof trains, now (being introduced into Ungland, have been common in America for twenty years. In many States it is demanded toy law.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11253, 4 July 1922, Page 6
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158ROLLER SKATING New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11253, 4 July 1922, Page 6
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