The strains of the band selection had just died away. People took a long breath of appreciation, and prepared to applaud. Suddenly (relates the Christchurch “Sun”) there came a cry from the Avon River, and several hundreds of the thousands of people present rushed towards the spot. 1 hey saw a man, looking very foolish and very damp crawl out of the stream, with a generous quantity of weed still clinging to him. They saw, too, a half-submerged canoe, which told , its own storv. It had been in a collision, and the "crowd was duly appreciative of the little entertainment provided gratifc
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 123, 22 February 1928, Page 10
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