THE TERM “WOWSER”
CLERG Y M AN’S DEI-’ 1N IT lON MELBOURNE, May 23. In an address to a united missionary gathering at Wesley Church to-night, th? Rev. T. C. Rentoul said that the true wowser was "one who wants to put trousers on the statues in the 1 park.” ; Mr. Rentoul, who is director of th"' Methodist Inland Mission, recalled tho story of an old gentleman in Tas-j mania, who'took exception to a large pictorial poster used by the foreign mission department. On the poster was depicted a stalwart native dressed in picturesque native barb. •'Whether the old gentleman thought that tho native might be cold or that ho was not quite deconf, I don’t know,”j ! Mr. Ro-!t'”.il. "but ho went out with a pot of paint and painted a pair I of trousers on him.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1935, Page 12
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