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Re: Brisbane Mini Meet
« Reply #63 on: Sunday 29 May 11 10:56 BST (UK) »
Yes!  Though maybe he'd have brought some rum with him.

He was Sydney's first water policeman but that job lasted only a year - he lost it when he was caught smuggling rum - which he claimed to have just 'found floating in the harbour'

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Re: Brisbane Mini Meet
« Reply #64 on: Sunday 29 May 11 11:17 BST (UK) »
Yes!  Though maybe he'd have brought some rum with him.

He was Sydney's first water policeman but that job lasted only a year - he lost it when he was caught smuggling rum - which he claimed to have just 'found floating in the harbour' ::) ::) ::) :P :P
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Re: Brisbane Mini Meet
« Reply #65 on: Sunday 29 May 11 11:18 BST (UK) »

That century's equivalent of "fell off the back of a truck"
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Re: Brisbane Mini Meet
« Reply #66 on: Sunday 29 May 11 11:21 BST (UK) »
Well, he was  with the water police!

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Re: Brisbane Mini Meet
« Reply #67 on: Sunday 29 May 11 11:36 BST (UK) »


A case of 'finders keepers', Dawn        ;)
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