“WYAPUCKEROU”
<t> WHEN WILL ROGERS WAS HERE? LETTER FROM SACRAMENTO What’s in a name? Well it’s carried the fame of Waipukurau right round the world, even unto Sacramento, which, by the way, is not a kind of curse, but a town in California. And without being unduly cynical it’s hardly likely we’d have got that far by just being a “model village.” This is what Will Rogers says about us in the “Sacramento Bee”: — “I was with Worth Bros. Circus, and we played everything from Wyapuckerou, in New Zealand, to Killgooly, or something like that away out in west of Australia.” Emily 7 Young, 1617 Eye Street, Sacremento, California, writes drawing our attention to Mr. Rogers’s geography. She adds: “ I stayed 25 years or more ago in Waipawa with a family called Breuer and tried to learn to ride a bike on that straight stretch of road to Waipukurau. Much travel in Europe since theh and now America has been my home for tbn years. Best Wishes.” Which leads to the accute observation that' all thO world’s -only a very small place! L
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 98, 20 April 1933, Page 4
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183“WYAPUCKEROU” Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 98, 20 April 1933, Page 4
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