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    Re: Sugying

    #1 During your father’s time with BTC it would have been straight soda and water , not the digestible soda unless you wanted a burned out stomach.

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    Soogying was one of the main jobs at sea along with painting. There were different stuff used, As John has mentioned Teepol, a later addition also sugar

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    The one Club in Cooma has a big dinning room, meals are a reasonable price, we have dinner there Mondays and Fridays, great staff, can't say I have heard

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