LEFT HIS BOOTS
MAORI BOY'S SUDDEN FRIGHT "TOOK OFF 1 ' IN SPEEDY FLIC,HiIt is well known that in the. 1 jackblocks the footwear of Maori children is more often than not many sizes too big for them, this fact, being truly illustrated to a certain cook during recent Army manoeuvres . For some time quantities of food rations had been unaccountably disappearing, but one night, from a ncar-b3 r truck, a faint rustle was .siientlv investigated and. found to be made by a small Maori boy stealthily engaged. Seizing a bayonet coldly gleaming in the moonlight, the. cook leapt forward with a biood-eurdling string of dynamically-worded threats, to find himself gazing at a pair of worn boots, the owner having literally .jumped out of them as he "took oil'" in .speedy flight..
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 40, 19 January 1943, Page 5
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131LEFT HIS BOOTS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 40, 19 January 1943, Page 5
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