Spring (Bok) Fever

Yes, "fever" is the word. It started in the Waikato when the Springboks were coming. It spread, swift as an epidemic, to the North and then South, infecting the atmosphere of offices, shops, farms and factories.

And, of course, it came to Gisborne, until people couldn't even breathe without gasping out a sound like "Springboks".

Undiscriminating, the disease struck right and left. Then, finally, it pounced on the office of "Photo News". Fever-stricken, someone mumbled: "What about a supplement of 'Bok pictures?" The day after the match? Only 16 hours after the big game? Preposterous. Impossible.

But the fever had a firm grip. It quickened the pulse, fired the imagination and set muscles working. Readers can see the result in this issue.. ....The fever had its way.