A visiter from .Owaka who attended the recent axemen’s carnival at Exhibition was, very much a.mused at an old lady who was. watching one of the chops. The scratch «ian, who was giving away 28secs., won his heat, and his mates were at once on the scene shaking hands and congra.tujating him. This, was too much for old lady, who called out;: “I do (’ not s,ee why they need to make such a fuss of him, because he never started until the rest were tired.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4938, 12 February 1926, Page 3
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