“NOT COMING BACK”
MU J. HI THOMAS TELLS THE WORM) Mr J. H. Thomas has no iiUenUon of entering public life again. Recently, at his seasfde retreat, he talked to a “Sunday Chronicle” correspondent about the different rumours now being circulated that he may again enter Parliament. “The rumours are entirely foolish,” he said. “This is the first time that 1 have heard any talk about going once again into the public limelight.” Ex-Cabinet Minister Thomas, until recently a prominent figure in politics, has become the complete country gentleman. Every day he goes into his garden, where he tends his flowers and vegetables. This is one of the favourite occupations of, the man who once swayed Parliament and political affairs as Minister for the Dominions and previously as Lord Privy Seal. • “But now X am very happy,” he told me. “I play golf. I browse about the garden, and I take long walks along the sands. “In my house here I am beginning to realise the meaning of being an ordinary householder.
“This simple fife is just marvellous. Can you wonder that after the lovely time which both my wife and myself enjoy here that I have no craving to go back to the whirl of politics?’’
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12258, 23 February 1937, Page 4
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