PERSONALITY PARADE. NO 17. JACK GIBBS.

Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 19, 23 October 1943, Page 3

PERSONALITY PARADE. NO 17. JACK GIBBS.

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JACK was bom at Kai para Flats, North Auckland, where .he went to school and z?- '//.?/.■/ later started.working on a fam. Ho was doing well till Councillor Paul J later famous as the Black Tracker ) introduced a Harming Ref dm bj.ii & gave him some poor horse-racing tips. /Ho* shifted to Waikato, was married an under new regained his success.. $ / r WHEN put into 'WORKS SERVICE COIIPANY he hoped to be made farm, manager ;with'his hsbncwt features and the Black Tracker’s schemes it looked '■ /.as if they, would both bo able to retire after the war, but unfortunately j.or t hem the oohero,c was abpndoncjil g $ HIS job of batman^scation orderly'room clerk io now . becoming somewhat like his'farm life which he cxpclaj.nod meant chasing the chickens out of the garden/kec ping’ hds cows, out .of . neighbouring ’ / turnip'paddocks-and the road's/ He ; did his. best ’.tb.>grazc 4 as many horses and eolves as He could on the roads « i t was something of a' racket among' the. farmers. : Here he now has ,about .the . same /amount of running arounc to do, but it consists mostly-of x rushing .’to-and from he notice board on which h. has to pin announcements of table tennis matches/ swimming car - nivals, motor trips, boxing, chess and draught meetings®. Sometimes he fools that his logs- arc not equal to the strain. He hinted that he was goijjig to approach Lieut. /Torric- with a view to obtaining a /horoe .which he could -keep tethered* outside the Service s' Orderly Room® g • ,/. ASKED "his opinion of the W.A.A.C.S. he became 'volubility itself. Stuck. away in ; . ? brack country districts he had not had the opportunity of’feasting on the. beauty of N.Z’s lovely ones ( a weakness common to all farming communities’) Now, however, he had opportunity it set the balance/' Unfortunately, ho found himself so tied up with the confounded notins a .that he .had nO time to enter the competitive struggle, Perhaps he gVnn the don'fidbncc of the Welfare N. 0.0. who wuld allow him to run up to the. Wanes with- no, ties* Of the W.A.A.C.S. he has observed at a distance he is greatly impressed > by the one who collects- the CENSORING: STAMP, and had some hard word to say on making one so young and beautiful walk such a long way for so trivial an article ( that’s a good hint ) However, his choice always has been and always will bo a flaming red head* h Yipso, I’m seeing more of lifenew than I thought who' in -cur dreams J he concluded an he dashed off with a notice. • • . <’ a' ‘ J ’ * . 1 ! \ /• **

THAT quiet R;A/?. Orderly of curs-is' ’• Shorty u □ ..name almost not so slow. Ho was observed rctur- omitted frc:a boxing notes. Hg pack: ning from the pictures hand in hand too heavy a wallop to allow that, the other night. Wouldn’t look our way. . ; .