Sorry the link was broken anyway - it went to Mr. Dot Com's cloud site!!!

Thanks to John Archer at Kiwi Folk, he says:

That'll be Bauer's findings about elastics collected during their NZ children?s playground research. The pdf is still on the internet on the NZ Folksong website ...

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http://folksong.org.nz/pdf_copies/Bauer_elastics.pdf

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At Mangamahu School in the 1940s, we played only queenie seeny, brandy, and hide and seek in the pine plantation around the pony paddock - for 6 years.

John A

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