Roundabouts
Roundabouts and swings — a whole circus of fun! A whole small park of it to yourselves with all the things you know and like and a hundred others. Here are some of their names: SCOOTABOAT, PIN BOWL, ROLL DOWN, BARNEY, CRAZY HOUSE, KAN KAN, WHIP, JACK AND JILL, DODGEM, TUMBLE BUG, and OCTOPUS. All’ the queer excited crowd and the dust and the heat and the smell and the noise and the Hurdy-Gurdy music that’s so important-they’ll all be there. And there’s a train with a truly marvellous engine that’s a tiny model of the " Coronation" one, with carriages for you to ride in and half-a-mile of track. And when you’re weary there’s a playroom full of toys and games. And when you’re hungry there’s nothing you could possibly want that isn’t there to eat. It’s the best and biggest Fair Ground that New Zealand’s ever known.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 19, 3 November 1939, Page 38
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148Roundabouts New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 19, 3 November 1939, Page 38
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