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WANGANUI BOY'S EXPERIENCE , RENEWAL OF ACQUAINTANCE ."It's a .small world, alter all, as I have been made to realise," writes a Wanganui boy serving overseas with the N.Z.8.F., to his parents. During the visit of the Indian hockey team to Wanganui this boy,, a keen table tennis player, enjoyed several games with one of the visiting team. On the journey to the Middle East, wearing the uniform of the N.ZJE.F., he strolled into a Y.M.C.A. building in a large seaport of. India, still keen for a game of table tennis. Judge of his surprise when a player whom he accosted at van-* dom recognised him, the recognition being almost mutual. It was the Indian hockey representative whom lie had played in Wanganui. "He had just returned from Cairo, where he reached the quarter-finals of the world championship singles," wrote the Wanganui boy. "We played a game and E lost, but what could you expect?"
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 7
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156SMALL WORLD Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 7
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