DEBATERS MISS TRAIN
LONG CHASE BY TAXI FARE OF £9 INVOLVED (Reed. July 3, 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 2. The New Zealand university debaters, Messrs. J. B. Aimers and M. G. O’Callaghan, after visits to Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra arrived 'at Melbourne to-day from Canberra.
They related how the desire to have breakfast in Sydney before boarding the train for Canberra cost them £9. Facing a four-minute taxi trip to the station three minutes before the train was due to leave, they reached the platform in time to see the 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.
They are to take part in a debate at Melbourne University on Monday night, the subject being: ‘“That the British public has been led up the Berchtesgarten path."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19979, 3 July 1939, Page 5
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