Lost Seven Stone. —Bowlers live long and are proud of it. One rink of eight players in Manawatu after a strenuous fight for kitty, sat down to afternoon tea and compared ages. rneir total years were 554 and the average 73 One member of the same club, not to* be outdone, declared that he had spent his 77th birthday in hospital. Originally only nine stone, he had lost seven, six of which—each weighing an ounce—he carried in a bottle in his vest pocket. They had been taken from his internal anatomy a * tel \ hour's exploration under anaesthetic a month ago. He now resumes play rnoie vigorously than ever— sixty guineas the poorer, but feeling all the seven stone better.
The sound of church bells has been drowned by the hooting of motor-cars. The Rev, W. Conrad Balmer.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 April 1927, Page 7
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