GIDDY FEAT. A young Cologne confectioner’s ap-, prentice. Hans Meyer, who last February climbed up and danced on the top of one of the celebrated spires. ol2ft high, has again repeated the daring feat in spite of a barbed wire obstruction put up to prevent such attempts. This time he affixed a large flag, bearing the inscription, ‘‘Olympiad e, Amsterdam,’’ on the weather vane. On the first occasion the youthful adventurer was acclaimed as a hero, and the police, who arrested him for endangering the public and-, himself, .set him free on payment of a small fine and presented him with a bouquet of flowers. This second ascent, however, appears to have resulted in nothing more than a period of detention in the local lock-up t
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1928, Page 3
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126Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1928, Page 3
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