The News
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And now for the news, read by ’Arry Ratbag ... • Two well-known Auckland,' DJs 'ave given up looking for a new club and gone from spinning discs to spilling * drinks. • The Mockers go overseas - in Andrew Fagan's boat. Estimated date of arrival on% Kawau Island April 30. • ; Car Crash Set travel to Wellington by train and get served beers by 40-year-old fruits. Arrive to find ’otel run. ; by gang members, lighting , , company by scaffolders,: pub by Italians and whole city by : jf thugs and politicians. • Police arrest and charge■ Dave Dobbyn with inciting a riot. They then take things one step further and arrest entire city council, Hugh Lynn, the whole staff of 89FM (MMMyg and all the riot police involved. All charges are then thrown out of court and an ex-police commissioner charged with wasting everyone’s timef^^ • Hunters and Collectors play an alcohoi/tobacco free gig at Auckland University Rec Centre. 'Arry accosted over a matter of a Dunhill by an angry non-smoker who spends 'is daytime as a dick. Four gorillas enforce. • .Queen announce tour tickets on sale at Aifies. • Jordan Luck still having difficulty finding “aJhaverf^'' clean shirt and a pair of long trousers.
• Beer strike drags on into third month, causing fights at many a pub because Joe Vjl Lunchbox does not realise that imported beer and spirits are about three times the potency of their usual sugar and water draught. * • Expert tourists the Chills last seen wandering lost forgotten hills in the Wanganui area after trying to make ; | Auckland from Wellington and missing. Get themselves a four hour delay and about 92 km of winding roads and full paper bags. • A certain Dunedin band come all the way to” Auckland and spend their first Saturday looking for Speights. Look (for) blue but only find green? • Radio With Pictures shifts flat into yet another pink paradise. C mon Karyn we all know your flat is just like the rest of ours. It reeks of pot, has a dirty kitchen full of cockroaches and a lounge full of overloaded ashtrays and empty beer bottles. • Forty more people have left the country. And now for the weather ... 'ARRY RATBAG (PS: Would the nice person who found a chrome Zippo ■ lighter at Mainstreet (Hunters ■ &Collectors) please return it to Box 5689 Auckland or. to ,me personally. Reward offered.}, '
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Rip It Up, Issue 92, 1 March 1985, Page 30
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393The News Rip It Up, Issue 92, 1 March 1985, Page 30
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