Island Bay United is an association football club in the southern suburb of Island Bay in Wellington, New Zealand. The club was founded in 1931 as Wellington Technical College Old Boys. In 1966 the name was changed to Island Bay United.
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“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
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—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)