MISSED A TRAIN
UNIVERSITY DEBATERS
200 MILES BY TAX!
(Received July 3, 11.30 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day.
The New Zealand University debaters, J. B. Aimers and M. .G. O'Callaghan, after "visits to Sydney, Brisbane, and Canberra, arrived in Melbourne yesterday from Canberra. .They related how, a desire to have breakfast in Sydney before boarding the train for Canberra cost £9. Facing a fourminute taxi trip to the station three minutes before the train was due to leave, they reached the platform in time to see th^-train disappearing; Setting out after the train, they missed it station by station, and decided eventually to complete the 200-mile journey by taxi, arriving half an hour after the train, with the taximeter showing £9.
For the debate against Melbourne University tonight the subject is, "That the British public has been led up the Berchtesgaden path."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 10
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141MISSED A TRAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 2, 3 July 1939, Page 10
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