AN AUCKLAND INCIDENT.
A meeting of those interested in * portwas held at Auckland fne otlie'' evening, and among those wlio p.it in a«i ( ap(pearan.ce was a clergyman .named <Ready. Evidently the sporting in'SimctiS 'of the majority of those present were lop-eided, for when the clergyman, wlio declared himself an. eni !hai;sia*Sifac e,port, essayed to sp-?ak, he «wa.s promptly howlgcT dfown with cries ictf "Wowser!" .If tliore is one thing more than another in which +he Bri<jsn .sport prides himsdllF, it i.s his love of faciMplay. The ''anti-wowsers' of Aii-ekvand showed that they ivere not Tlruilshi is-ports. They had i:.ot t'he gameneas cif the garden variety of •!RsTr£c?oor cockerel. They were m> Britiish to the very laist degree.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10649, 4 June 1912, Page 4
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117AN AUCKLAND INCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10649, 4 June 1912, Page 4
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