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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Those days will never CAMAY again!

 

We've just come home after a couple of hours' 'aquatic therapy' in the heated indoor pool in the Bay. In the men's changeroom I found a discarded CAMAY soap wrapper which immediately brought back memories.

During the construction phase of Bougainville Copper in the early 70s when I lived at Camp 6 at Loloho, we received with our weekly towel change a new piece of CAMAY soap, whether we had used up the old one or not. Usually we hadn't and there was CAMAY soap all over the camp.

A certain surveyor working for BECHTEL would collect all the CAMAY soap he could get his hands on and also regularly empty the crib rooms of all their LIPTON tea-bags and ARNOTT'S Scotch Finger biscuits, all of which he would parcel up and send back to his family in Perth.

If you have ever been to Perth and seen a family with a lovely CAMAY complexion and a strong aversion to LIPTON tea and ARNOTT'S Scotch Finger biscuits, you will know who I am talking about.


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