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HATEVER you do, don’t under-estimate the power of the radio. For that matter, and to be more specific, don’t under-estimate the power of a portable radio, especially if it represents the sporting chance of something for nothing. For those who doubt, the pictures on these pages- should be convincing evidence. This is what happened. When the first Auckland session of Posers, Penalties, and Profits was held the other evening, one of the prizesa portable radio set-remained in the hands of the compére, Selwyn Toogood, at the end of the show, and it was announced that it would be awarded to the winner of an impromptu harbour swim at lunch-time the next day. In spite of drizzle, thousands turned up to see the fun. They crowded the edges of the wharf, hung precariously on the dock-gates or over the parapets of sheds; they even invaded the wharfside shipping. The contestants-several score of them, in almost all stages of dress or undress-jostled on the wharf-steps as they prepared to pay a penalty from which only one could profit. On a launch about 35 yards out stood the compére and the radio. The starter’s pistol banged, the eager beavers (male and female) hit the water, the crowd roared. A few seconds later the launch sagged precariously as the vanguard climbed aboard. First over the side was R, G, Brown, aged 19, who got the profit.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 465, 21 May 1948, Page 18
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