On a hot Sunday recently a Taranaki cleric was on the roadside busily engaged in repairing a puncture so that he could hurry on to his next appointment, when a youth on horseback, cigarette butt in mouth, pulled up and casually enquired whether he was repairing a puncture. Dusty and perspiring the reverend gentleman, who can be sarcastic, quietly replied that he had merely taken the tyre off to find out what was the colour of the inner tube.
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Putaruru Press, Volume V, Issue 175, 10 March 1927, Page 5
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