THE WORST HAPPENED
(N.Z. Press Association) GISBORNE. May 13. Recollections of a boyhood visit to the district brought a roar of laughter from several hundred Maoris at a luncheon in Tikitiki yesterday in honour of the GovernorGeneral (Sir Bernard Fergusson). Sir Bernard Fergusson recalled the previous visit made with his parents 37 yean ago on a very hot day. “The chairs had been varnished the day before and as the sun came up the varnish melted and 1 stuck,” he said. “I heaved myself out, but an elderly lady, whose name I remember well, but will not reveal, was fully stuck. “Her two grandchildren grabbed her legs and pulled her from the chair. The effect was precisely what one might . have feared.”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30130, 14 May 1963, Page 14
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