Jacket and kilt
PA Wellington Formal evening dress for the Government member for Horowhenua (Mr G. W. F. Thompson) last evening included a kilt, traditional black tie, and dinner jacket. The tartan he wore in proposing the Address-in-Reply in Parliament was the green and purple check of Campbell of Argyll, his family tartan, he explained. Government members passing him on their way to their seats before the open-
ing of the session complimented him on his appearance. In the public gallery, the wife of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Maclntyre) wore a tartan sash across the shoulder of her suit. , What was the honourable gentleman wearing beneath his kilt, if anything? A television reporter said that he saw Mr Thompson earlier in the evening clutching a pair of white shorts before dressing for one of Parliament’s show-piece occasions.
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