Perc Galea, a noted punter whose name was synonymous with the placement of large wagers, died last night in St. Vincent’s Hospital, in Darlinghurst. Mr. Galea’s cause of death has been attributed to a heart attack. He was sixty-seven years of age.
It was a cool five degrees Celsius at 6.30 a.m., but did not feel as cold as five degrees of, say, a month ago. The traffic was particularly congested and it took fifty minutes for us to reach St. Peters.
“Flashez”, at half past five, was followed thirty minutes later by the last offering in the repetition of Bill Peach’s “Holiday”. It includes a trip by bus to Cape Reinga, the northernmost point on the North Island of New Zealand. The whole of “Willesee” is devoted to its presenter, Mike Willesee, grilling the Deputy Leader of the Country Party, Ian Sinclair, about the operations of his personal company and the transactions of its business.
We later viewed the film, “The Seven Minutes”, from nine o’clock. It features Wayne “Custer”/”Lancer”/”Chase” Maunder and Edy Williams and was produced in 1971.