The compulsion to take the work or lose the dole left many families with barely any option at all, and sending the men up country created special losses and problems. An unemployed 'lurkman' Jim Sharrock, commented about his call-up: 'I lost over relief work. I'd been getting ten bob a week nit-keeping for the SP bloke.'

Despite a stumble, he managed to come fourth in the hurdles.

Ramón-Moliner and Nauta (1966) designated the closed nuclei, in which dendrites do not extend into adjacent fibre bundles, as ‘hodophobic’.

a gas condensible to a liquid by cold