STAGE GIVES WAY.
FALL OF LIBERALS. LITTLE HARM DONE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ' OTTAWA, Aug. 25. Ten minutes after a Liberal mass meeting at Montreal opened the speakers’ platform collapsed, throwing the Premier (Mr Mackenzie King), the Minister for Marine (Mr Cardin), and some fifty others to the floor. A cry of horror turned to a cheer when the Premier was seen to rise, brushing off the water from a jug on the speakers’ table. No one was seriously injured.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 August 1924, Page 5
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