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Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1927, Page 5

Lindsay Robinson, feather-weight champion of Maoriland, never lets pleasure interfere with business, business in his case being a dairy farm from which he delivers the milk in an aged Ford (writes a Sydney Bulletin correspondent). Once when he was out on his rounds he received a telegram from the president of the Hastings Boxing Association! “Ha»fe you forgotten your fight here, on the 10thJ” Lindsay sent back a laconic “No.” Came another wire: “Challenger arrived here In state four days ago; when can we expect you?” “As soon as I've turned the cows out,” Robbie replied. He left Gisborne that night, reached Hastings (150 miles away) at dawn, licked hie man the same evening, and woe back on hl» ( round next day.