FEELING FIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 192, 16 August 1939, Page 15

FEELING FIT.

MR. SAVAQE'B RECOVERY.

LOOKING A PICTURE 0? HEALTH

"I am quite certain that I shall go out of here a better man than I have ever been at any time in the last 20 years," declared the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, in an interview in the Lewisham Hospital with "The Standard," ten days after his serious operation.

Stating that he was feeling as flt as a fiddle except for tjhe physical weakness caused by his woundi Mr. Savage was such a picture of radiant health that it was hard to believe that only ten days previously the whole "community had tieen waiting anxiously to hear how he had coino through his operation, states the paper.

"Sinco I have been here I have seen more of the best side of humanity than ever before in my life," he added. "It would be impossible to repay all those kindnesses, but as soon as I can do so I intend making a full public statement and after that I shall sit down by the radio and broadcast my thanks to the people of New Zealand," Relating one of his conversations with his doctors, Mr. Savage «»W he had remarked after the operation that he was feeling tip-top. One of the doctors sa id: "There is no need f° r y°4 to crack hardy. Are you feeling llt? M He was ii bio to reply With absolute honesty that he was not "just oraeking hardy"— lie was really feeling flt.

He said that he had a telephone beside his bed and a radio, but had not been bothering about Parliament, as he felt the affairs of the country were in perfectly good hands during his absence. It. was mentioned that the Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Labour, was occupying an adjoining room undergoing treatment for eye trouble and was engaged in a race with his chief to see who would be discharged from hospital wltt