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Dominion (Wellington) 9 Nov. 6: Full on Jacks. This has been jacked-up question week in the House. This old, simple device deceives no one [...] The method is for a Government member to ask a Minister a question, the reply to which will embarrass the Opposition [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 23 July 1: New Zealander’s liquor hours, notably the ‘five to six swill’ produced-debate and plenty of laughs at the National Party Conference yesterday [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 30 Sept. 4: [Heading] Player makes big ‘joe’ of himself. The [Wellington] club awards its Joey emblem to the player who, in the judgement of the reserves, makes the biggest ‘Joe’ of himself during the match [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 31 Aug. 7: Undoubtedly there was good blood among these horses [on Kaingaroa Plain, c 1910], though the great majority would come into the somewhat elastic classification of ‘Māori weed.’ In actual fact, there was no reproach in the term. Born and reared on the inhospitable plains, a horse developed a stamina that no finely-bred animal possessed [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 11 Sept. n.p.: 4 The former Speaker Sir Roy Jack, was not to be mistaken for his meaning when he said he had had a ‘gutsful’ of demonstrations [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 17 June 26: I’ve been trying to find space for my notes on a ‘Glossy’ subtitled ‘This Will Really Kill You’. It’s a wopcacker if ever there was, so here goes [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 2 Sept. 17: The dismantling of the last big ‘Scotsman’s grand-stand’ beside Eden Park on Saturday in accordance with a Court order. But many people still watched the rugby test from the stand in Mrs Monica O’Sullivan’s back garden [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 10 Mar. 2: Mr Quigley expressed concern that there were some ‘roughies’ — unqualified carpenters — engaged in building [AND]. Dominion (Wellington) 20 Aug. 11: The correct headgear for the boy of the period was either a tight-fitting college cap [...] or, at holiday time, a ‘cady’ [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 24 Mar. I: On display was a wide range of these Wellingtonians – louts, larrikins, lunks, lummoxes, yahoos – the creme de la creme of hoondom [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 12 Nov. 6: The class was in fits. The teacher marched him off to the headmaster where Patu did his porangi act again [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 26 Feb. 6: My main entertainment [at Opunake] with my friends is Friday nights. We all gather at the fish shop where lots of kids play spacies [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 4 Sept. 7: Kiwis go for greasies Fish and chips still rates tops as New Zealanders’ most popular takeaway meal [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 21 Sept. 3: The chief executive of the Hotel Association, Tom Sheehy, said last night that students contained elements of ‘hoonery’, just as did other groups of society [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 30 Dec. 8: [Heading] Woofterish on Aids. Of all your editorial comments [...] surely the effort on Aids and the Bishop of Christchurch takes the biscuit for wooly [sic] woofterism [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 11 Jan. 3: Officially Hinckesman was a stowaway, but the Auckland Star said he had done a ‘ringbolt’, paying a crew member to hide him during the voyage [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 30 Apr. 3: Dr John Dobson, a drug clinic consultant.., says flunitrazepan, marketed as Rohypnol, is supposed to be a sleeping tablet. But it has become a favourite with pill popping addicts, and ‘rolies’ as they are known, sell on the street for up to $7 each... ‘It’s the drug that druggies use.’. Dominion (Wellington) 11 Aug. 3: Budget changes had removed the tax advantages for ‘Queen Street farmers’ in the ownership of such farms as Taumata [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 17 June 7: The bikies then dealt to the car by smashing windows [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 2 May 1: ‘Milkshakes’ – the use of stomach tubing to give a horse a mixture believed by some to enhance performance – came to a head early in March when the [Harness Racing] conference issued a statement outlawing the practice on racedays [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 9 Nov. 13: The troops mustered two dozen cans of Fosters, the chief (engineer) and I gave him [i.e. a reporter] the rum we’ve been saving... He’s as happy as a flea at a dog show [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 13 May 1: Mr Peters yesterday hit out at ‘political tyre-kickers’, populist prejudice and shallow analysis, after Mr Bolger slammed the idea of a Maori superministry [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 29 Aug. 9: The population [...] is mainly Inuit Greenlanders with mongoloid features, pale brown skin and black hair, but there has been much fencejumping during the past 300 years and the resulting mix has produced attractive people [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 5 Dec. 14: If parents and elders had said this to their children they would not have ended up sniffing glue, playing ‘spacies’, and having no self-esteem [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 27 Sept. 10: Assorted meat axes and wombats like Gilbert Miles [...] will provide supporting sideshows [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 2 Mar. 7: In [striking] Telecom workplaces the faxes ran hot with amateur cartoons of Spot [a dog featuring in Telecom advertising] being done like a dog’s dinner [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 16 Jan. 10: I wasn’t sure whether to be flattered or outraged by the stares from the rear windows of the hoonmobiles [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 20 Sept. 61: I have a niece [...] who gets on the blower and rings up all her old mates in outer Pongolia or wherever. Dominion (Wellington) 3 Mar. 10: Sometimes the expression ‘Have a nice day’ is a sincere wish... But in New Zealand it sounds forced and odd, like the accent of a Queen Street Yank [DNZE]. Dominion (Wellington) 2 Aug. 12: He saw [...] [X] hit Mr Maraki in the jaw [...] ‘The man was had it. He was out,’ Mr Graham said [DNZE].