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Otago Witness, Issue 3898, 27 November 1928, Page 6

Club-swingers, dancers, and other endurance fanatics will have to look to their laurels. A few nights ago, at a pruneeating contest among the students of Hawkesbury Agricultural College (New South Wales), one bright third-year boy triumphantly devoured 184 prunes, and incidentally beat the 1927 record by one pryne. Apparently these prune-eating contests, like the egg-laying competitions, are a feature of this bucolic institution The champion prune-eater, in compliance with the conditions regulating the contest, completed the first course of his dinner before setting out on his gastronomic endurance feat. Afterwards, as another essentioal condition of the competition, he did a brisk circuit of the college quadrangle. “No decision has yet been made in regard to what type of post-primary school is to be established in the Otahnhu district,” stated the secretary of the Education Department in a letter which the Board of Managers of the Seddon Memorial Technical College. The board had applied for a grant of £8250 to provide facilities for agricultural work at Otahuhu. The department stated that the matter would be further considered when a decision was reached.