PERSONALITY PARADE NO 14. MAC.

Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 16, 25 September 1943, Page 3

PERSONALITY PARADE NO 14. MAC.

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PERHAPS you have seen a gangster like creature wandering around with it’s had on one side, longs or shorts with bottoms rolled in three thicknesses and a ruminating bovine expression on it’s face, the hat once drew forth a complaint that the WORKS SERVICE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY is not a cawboy army. :,g ; IT is mac.; ; • HE once studied for the ministry but a vague knowledge of greok is all that remains, ho once lived in a boarding house, but boarding house manners are all that remain, he once . ran the canteen, but nothing remains.; ; « AS a free lance Journalist in Auckland he was a well known figure, his vividly striped dressing gown and pyjamas often being seen on the ■; streets.; ; • IF you speak to him, he will look at you vaguely and after about ton minutes will make an, irrelevant comment, if you get into conversation with him he will turn it to russian writers and. v make many references to dostoyevsky^J : • WHEN in the c.r.e.'-camp'he. climbed out of bed on the.'toothless call of ” all out " for mess, rubh» ed down half dressed., to the tables ( passing on the way, miss, aim daintily carrying her mess gear in a table napkin )♦ when he saw either doff co or coca, he threw down his mug, or some one else’s groaning * no tea "...and did not wake up till midday.: • ; HE is q fiend for tea# after a cup he can do more boxing than most people can do after a glass, he cbhiot visit -luoja at. the red cross without getting a cup of tea at half time, and it is rumoured that. during a visit to the ? pink house he asked for one.

OUR DOIT R. REPORTER brought back a bag of news with him from the trip north, as usual he was roundly abused by T.P.H. who thought the cartoon of himself in DOZERDUST portrayed him as duller than he is at his worst. ....bill charleton would Insist upon tolling our DRP all about J.A.LES, and iniviting him to the bill charlcten party when J.A. is returned, in the meantime bill is finoodling about with an R. 8.10. he had the audacity to offer making a barber green out of odds and ends. . . , cyril mcrae tried to pop up the DRAG LINE and is now in hospital being pepped up.... his partner in the circus construction

gave his blessing to the contraption as the party set out with it. But blessing did little to smooth the way; before it was on the main road all hands were heartily cuh>* ing it ?n4 once on the road it took all* communications with it# : : : ” snowy"lord is looking for a quiet spot where ho can open a fish and chip shop after the war. cnr. neuman is making for ASCHQ’s while " nertos " nelson has been dipping his blade too often, trevor bluck now o.c. bridge party, says view is grand and scenery is improving. fred harr is on looks like he enjoys being top man ” across river,-