CONTRASTS.
' "If. there is one : member of the House who has given mo a kind of a shake, it as- the Minister of Education,'' said- Mr. E. J. • Howard (Labour, Christchurch 'South) in the, House .of Bepresentatives' yesterday afternoon.
"If I had one of Wolls's tiuiemachiaesj" said Mr. Howard, "X, could . almost construct—though not in his words —tho speech tho Minister wouid havo made three years ago from the Opposition benches if such a proposal as the closure had been made. Is it a matter of places that has altered the hon. gentleman from a democrat to something that I would like to say, if I were permitted? (Laughter.) Now, I am not at all surprised about tho Minister of Eailways. During the twelve years I have sat with the hon. gentleman he has always stood face to face with the wind.' (Laughter.) No matter what way the wind was blowing ho was always head on to it. Look on the steeple of any church and you will find a brave little thing, with his tail upstanding, headed to the wind all the time My hon. friend stands head to the wind all tho time, so long as it wiggles ,his tail." .(Loud laughter.)
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 76, 31 March 1931, Page 8
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