ALL HOPELESS
"What a hopeless, country '.if;, must be," remarked.■the.vPrime.Minister ia the House of Representatives last night, after listening for a few minutes to Mr. H. G. R. Ma'soni (Eden), discoursing on the unemployment problem. "It is a hopeless Government from which this country is suffering," Mr. Mason retorted.. ::..;,.>' . The Hon. AY. Nosworthy (sharply):] "A hopeless' Opposition.'* The Prime Minister (the Eight' Hon. J. G. Coates): "The hon. gent, ought to go and get tuned up. He is very depressed to-night." . '. Mr: Mason: "I wish the Prime Min-. ister could sit in my office and have unemployed come fc« him as they come to me. He wouli. not joke with the subject then.".. : The Prime Minister: "I suppose I see ten unemployed to the hon. gent.'s one." , . \ . .
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 8
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