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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 172, 29 October 1910, Page 5

The lines of poetry which secured the second prize in Mr. C. Carter's Golden Gift Tea competition will be found in our advertising columns to-day. A petitioner in the Divorce Court at Sydney recently, who was applying for a decree ni.-i on the ground of desertion, said that she had not heard of her husband, a shearer, since he left her to look for work. He went under different names, and explained to her that he did this to impersonate various shed champions when they died. He told her that it was the practice among shearers not to allow champions' names to die, but to keep them alive in districts where their feats were known. The Judge remarked that it was evidently a ease of living on fictitious reputations. He had heard of it being done in other walks of life.