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Otaki Mail, 27 January 1922, Page 4

What might be described as a sign - of the times was the appearance in Queen street, Auckland, on Saturday (says the Star) of a fully-equipped “swagger” who attracted a good deal of amused interest. The man, said to be a familial' character in the Waikato, was evidently a swagman de luxe,. judging by the extent and character of liis equipment. Besides the time-honoured "bluey” representing the gentleman’s bed, he was encumbered with two sack bags filled with what was probably general furniture, while three billies, one pot and two frying pans jangled musically around him, -not to mention sundry other' small knick-knacks suspended by pieces of string from various corners of his unusual outline. But the article -which caused most people to gape in astonishment and then grin broadly, was a large pair of bellows swinging conspicuously in _ the rear of the laden man of the road and speculation was rife as to whether its purpose was purely the utilitarian one of puffing up the campfire or whether it was also an adventitious aid for “raising the wind” in these time of financial congestion.