HEAVYWEIGHT CLUB
DISSOLVED IN PARIS ALL MEMBERS DISQUALIFIED. AS RESULT OF FOOD RATIONING. (Received This Day. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. August 10. The Vichy News Agency stated that after forty years, the Paris Heavyweight Club had fallen victim to food rationing and had dissolved as a result of the disqualification of members, one by one, because their weight fell below sixteen stone, the minimum required under the club rules. The oldest living member used to weight nineteen stone and now weighs barely fourteen. Members of the club were famous for their escapades, one of which was for all to board a bus, until the platforms scraped the ground, whereupon they would get out and push.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1941, Page 6
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114HEAVYWEIGHT CLUB Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1941, Page 6
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