COUNTESS AS PEDLAR

Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 August 1930, Page 8

COUNTESS AS PEDLAR

TOURING WITH A LOBBY. A large motor lorry, painted in red, white and blue, with a Union Jack on the .bonnet, stood ill front of Staunton Harold Hall. Ash'by-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, recently, laden with all sorts of articles from greenhouse plants, to clothes pegs. In. white letters was painted on the side of the lorry: Countess Ferrers, Hawker, Staunton Harold. By the steps of the mansion, one of the largest in Leicestershire, Countess Ferrers was loading the lorry, but she stopped to say to a newspaper correspondent: “I have turned hawker because the Loughborough division Women’s Conservative Association is hadlv in need of money. I tour the villages in the constituency to. sell all .sorts of goods. 1 drive the lorry on to the village greens. ring a hell, and out come the villagers to do business. Trade is pretty good.” The countess .said no propaganda was mixed with the business and she had. secured a-pedlar’s license in the usual way. Countess ' Ferrers looked bronzed and agreed that a hawker’s life suited her. However, her career on the road soon ended, as her arrangements were made for a fortnight only. All the goods she sold were given by Conservative supporters.