NO BUTT OF SACK.
POET LAUREATE TAKES £27
LONDON, May 12.
Answering a question in Parliament, the Lord President of the Council, Mr. Baldwin, said there were no conditions attached to the post of Poet Laureate, at present held by Mr. John Masefield. who received £70 a year from the civil list, with an allowance of £27 in lieu of a butt of sack.
An interjector: Are you aware there are other poets who are very hard up? Mr. Baldwin made no reply.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 116, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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83NO BUTT OF SACK. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 116, 18 May 1932, Page 7
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