Hat Out

But while Mayors and firemen enlivened the holidays by aiming arrows and hoses, it fell to the lot of not a few local citizens to get on with the serious business of doing nothing.

How this is best done was demonstrated effectively by one of Gisborne's dentists, here seen extracting, not a molar, or even a rabbit from a hat, but the last ounce of indolence from the idle hour. (Photo, Peter Hughes).