Applause swept a theatre in San Francisco as Kathleen Healy dashed across the stage and jumped into the orchestra pit. It was "great comedy," decided the patrons. But Miss Healy didn't think so. She had just come face to face with a lion in her dressing room. Police and firemen eventually herded it back into its cage off stage.
A mock Parliament was held by the Wesley Men's Institute in the schoolroom of the Pitt Street Methodist Church on Saturday evening. The House was divided into two parties, the Labour (Government) and the Nazis (Opposition), with the balance of power in the hands of Independent members. Currency reform, unemployment and "home rule" legislation was introduced by the Government, and the Nazis brought forward a bill to extend the life of the New Zealand Parliament to 120 years jV ll more months, and 10 're .days. ■■■'<■ ■■
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 172, 24 July 1933, Page 8
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