“Pier Lizards”
Latest priority seekers to New Zealand and Australia—)‘pier lizards.’,’ They are people hoping for last minute cancellations in steamier bookings whereby at a couple of hours’ notice they grab their baggage apd rush to the ship. Practically every ship departing has somebody dropping out, but only a few can become pier lizards because it often means waiting at the port or within a few miles of it. Sometimes they are summoned by telephone cnlv an hour or so before the vessel is due to leavQ,
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6238, 5 June 1946, Page 6
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87“Pier Lizards” Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6238, 5 June 1946, Page 6
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