"Snooping Around a Bit"
OSSIBLY many of you will remember the former England test cricket captain, A. P. F. Chapman, whose bulk made him a real giant among cricketers. Incidentally he concluded a sort of sporting treaty of union with New Zealand by marrying the daughter of T. H. Lowry, the well-known Hawke’s Bay sports-
man. Well, Chapman enlisted in the army and was accepted, but strange as it may seem, was discharged shortly afterwards on the ground of physical unfitness. He was then given a_ special duties post under the Ministry of Home Security. Part of his work consists in inspecting wild stretches of country in the Home counties looking for ground that
may be suitable for possible operations by an invading enemy air unit. He travels alone by car round England and when he sees a piece of likely-looking country he pulls up and, as he puts it, "snoops around a bit." However, keen amateur observers have spotted him on this job and he recently was stopped and interrogated as an espionage suspect no fewer than five times in one day. It’s funny that while practically every New Zealand schoolboy would have no difficulty in recognising Chapman from his photograph, in his home country he requires an officially visaed passport to enable him to go about his work without interference from enthusiastic anti-Fifth Columnists. (" Personalities and Places in the News," by George Bagley, 3YA, July 30.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 60, 16 August 1940, Page 6
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