* Janice " Pongo " Footrot, comics character from Murray Ball's strip Footrot Flats ( 1975 – 1994 )

The very first edition of Footrot Flats released in 1978.

Later releases of this book had the title of Footrot Flats One.

Footrot Flats was a comic strip written by New Zealand cartoonist Murray Ball.

There was also a stage musical, an animated feature film called Footrot Flats: the Dog's < s > Tail </ s > Tale, and even a theme park in New Zealand.

The cartoon was based around the life of Wal Footrot's sheepdog, called " Dog ", on their farm Footrot Flats, and the other characters, human and animal, that came into their lives.

A scene from a 1978 Footrot Flats comic strip-showing Wal and The Dog

It is revealed in Footrot Flats Gallery 3 that she was once married to Archi " Toey " Footrot, a barber.

Sport plays a major part in Footrot Flats.

Other sports that get mentioned in Footrot Flats are boxing, polo, soccer, squash, and shooting.

* Footrot Flats 1-27 ( 1978 – 99 )

* The Footrot Flats ' Weekender ' 1-8 ( 1985 – 98 )

* The Puppydog Footrot Flats 1-21 ( 1995 )

* Footrot Flats Pocket Book Collection ( 1995 )

* Footrot Flats: The Making of the Movie ( 1986 )

* Footrot Flats: The Dog's < s > Tail </ s > Tale ( 1986 )

* Footrot Flats Collector's Edition ( 1987 )

* Footrot Flats Collector's Edition 2 ( 1989 )

* Footrot Flats Collector's Edition 3 ( 1993 )

* The Footrot Flats ' Weekender ' Special ( 1994 )

* Footrot Flats Gallery 1-3 ( 2005 – 06 )

* Footrot Flats Sports Collection ( 2005 )

* Footrot Flats: The Wisdom of Dog ( 27 / 9 / 2010 )

After 1975 Ball wrote several comics in New Zealand ( for instance ' Nature Calls '), but it was in 1976 that he first published the strip Footrot Flats in Wellington's afternoon newspaper, The Evening Post.

The strip follows the adventures of a working sheep-dog called ( if anything ) " Dog " or " The Dog " or "@*&#!, his owner Wal Footrot and the other characters, human and animal, that they encounter or associate with.

Footrot Flats characters include Wal, Dog, Cooch, Cheeky Hobson, Aunt Dolly, Horse, Pongo, Rangi, Charlie, Major, Jess and the Murphy family of Irish and Hunk and Spit.

; Wallace Cadwallader " Wal " Footrot: Wallace Footrot was born on 26 January in Northern Manawatu.

; Janice " Pongo " Footrot: Wal's niece, daughter of Rex Footrot.

; Dolores Monrovia Godwit " Aunt Dolly " Footrot: Wal's aunt ( by marriage ).

Gumboots are often referred to in New Zealand popular culture such as the rurally-based Footrot Flats comic strip.

* Dog, the border Collie of the comic strip Footrot Flats.

* The main character in the comic strip Footrot Flats

He also co-wrote the mini-series Anzacs and provided the voice of Wal Footrot in the feature-length animated film, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale ( 1986 ), based on the comic strips by Murray Ball.

Murray Hone Ball, ONZM ( born 1939 in Feilding in the Manawatu ), a New Zealand-born cartoonist, has become known for his Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero ( the longest running cartoon in Punch magazine ), Bruce the Barbarian, All the King's Comrades ( also in Punch ) and the long-running Footrot Flats comic series.

Ball's Footrot Flats has appeared in syndication in international newspapers, and in over 40 published books.

and New Zealand's first feature-length animated film, Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale ( 1986 ).

In this final phase of the geologic story, an enormous discharge of water caused local deep scour features ( e. g. the Potholes at Little Falls ), and extensive sand and gravel deposition, which is one of the key sources of municipal groundwater including the Scotia Delta, which is also known as the Great Flats Aquifer.

Other features publicly accessible within the caverns include Mud Flats, Rotunda Room, Strawberry Room, and Cul-de-sac Passage.

In episode # 621 The Beast of Yucca Flats, one host segment sketch features Crow T. Robot continually asking if it's 11: 30 yet, based on breakfast-skipping Conniff's obsession with having lunch at 11: 30.

Beta ( pronounced " Beeta "): Located above Tannery Flats, Beta at one time boasted several stores, a church, two-story wood frame graded school, and several industries.

In Canada, the Radburn concept was used in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the late 1940s and early 1950s in three communities: Wildwood Park in Fort Garry, consisting of ten bays ( loop streets ), Norwood Flats in St. Boniface, consisting of four bays, and Gaboury Place, a single bay in St. Boniface – totalling several hundred single family houses, all facing sidewalks and green spaces and backing onto short bays.

In later years East Florenceville, previously known as Buckwheat Flats, became the commercial centre with five grocery stores and several other small businesses.

In 1953, a special streamlined Austin-Healey set several land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA.

It branches into several channels near its mouth at Lake St. Clair, creating a broad delta region known as the St. Clair Flats.

Siskiwit Lake contains several islands, including Ryan Island, the largest, which contains Moose Flats, a seasonal pond, which contains Moose Boulder.

There are several spots located on the river to launch watercraft, including Graves Landing, Highway 22X Bridge, Policeman's Flats and McKinnon Flats.

From here, the river continues northward, absorbing Spruce Flats Branch and several smaller streams before steadying in a relatively flat area known as Walker Valley.

Broad Street, in the Lebreton Flats area, was the site of several stations, several of them perishing in fire.

Flats were to be sold at a discount of 40 %, the most attractive for several years.

On June 17, 1932, the Bonus Army ( about 17, 000 World War I veterans and 26, 000 of their family members and affiliated groups ) had established a Hooverville shanty town on the Anacostia Flats area of Washington, D. C. On July 28, the U. S. 12th Infantry Regiment commanded by General Douglas MacArthur and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment ( supported by six tanks ) commanded by Major George S. Patton attacked and set afire the Bonus Army's encampment, injuring hundreds and killing several veterans and civilians.

The new route connects from just south-west of the Portage Bridge intersection, along a route several hundred metres to the south, passing through Lebreton Flats and intersecting with area streets at signalized intersections.

Canal Flats is the gateway to several backcountry provincial parks, including Whiteswan and Top of the World, and is an entrance to the Kootenay River Road.

Fuller was also an accomplished vocalist and did several ' bandstand gigs ' with Bill Aken's ' Los Nomadas ' rock group at holiday festivities in Whiskey Flats, California.

In 2006, Sancious teamed up with guitarist and singer / songwriter Francis Dunnery to play keyboards and make a several live appearances for Dunnery's The Gulley Flats Boys.