A MINISTER' BREAK
The Minister of Education (the Hon. S. G. Smith), like other Parliamentarians, can handle a billiard cue, and, though he admits having to his credit a good break, it was not with any intention of challenging Walter Lindrum or Clark'McConachy that he met these champions yesterday. He disclosed the fact, "however, that the game of billiards is played in the House of Representatives, arid that there are some keen players there. "We have three tables in the House of Representatives," he said, "and when I first went into Parliament we' had just shifted into the new building and had billiard tables:m~the House for the first time." The.interest became such that he hadbeen told that the income to Bellamy's ,had been reduced by about 75 per cent. Continuing in humorous vein, the Minister mentioned that at .first his Labour friends were not particularly: Interested, but nowadays they entered keenly. into the' competitions and carried off "the cups and trophies. For his part, he was resting on his laurels. The highest break he had made was 38, and that was off a fluke, and his oldest. friends in Parliament dii*KOt let him forget it.. . • ".
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Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 11
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195A MINISTER' BREAK Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 11
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