AN ELECTION JOKE.
AMUSING DEPUTATION INCIDENT. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WKLLJNGTON. Wednesday. A Tarnnaki deputation interviewing the Prime Minister regarding a £500,000 railway it urgently desires, produced an unexpected argument for the Hon. W. F. Massey's delectation to-night: Mr. Dudley, chairman of Egmont County Council, having urged the case for the railway, added that he. did not wish to be rude, but he would like to remind th« Prime Minister that when he was at Opunake the speaker presided over his meeting, and heard him (Mr. Maseey) say the district was justly entitled to the railway, and would have had it if Tom Mackenzie had not been the member. (Laughter.) The Prime Minister: I don't remember that. (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Dudley laughingly suggested that perhaps the Prime 'Minister did not wish to remember it. When the Prime Minister replied he said Mr. Dudley had referred to an eleotion joke. Mr. Dudley: No joke, sir, you said it as if you meant it. Mr. Maseru: I am afraid my friend. has a fertile imagination, but T voted for the. railway on the last occasion, and I am prepared to stand by my vote now.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 201, 22 August 1912, Page 7
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