Jokes about Christchurch city’s beautiful river will have to bo revised now that tho Avon has been deepened In part., and -may-all—be-deepened teter. Two of the latest jokes have been r n4 “ber enm ones. Ga r "’^ rr on the deepened stretch, one citizen re T marked to a ChVistchurch Press reporter : “ Now thete be any excuse for anyone., out of tho "‘tv if b« wants to drown himself ! ” A. few days later one, of .the veteran ion realists' Of the city.’ after "survevrpo- the ca.mo stretch of the river, sa ; d quite cheerfully: ‘ r Aft., they’re getw n? it more I‘Ve it in tho old ~~ople could drown themselves in it ! 99
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 137, 17 June 1926, Page 3
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