The inevitable humorist bobbed up serenely at Mr. Massey’s meeting at Amberley on Saturday night. Several questions had been asked and answered, when an individual in the centre of the hall rose and addressed Mr. Massey thus: “You are no doubt aware that there is | a shortage of domestic helps in the country. You may have noticed ; that the ex-Sultan of Turkey left I five hundred wives and that noi body seems to know what to do ( with them. Would you be in favour of arranging for them to come ito New Zealand as domestic helps?” A burst of laughter folj lowed this ingenuous query. Mr. | Massey asked that the question be J ’’epeated, but the humorist was i satisfied with having got his joke J off, and declined to repeat it. i Mr. Massey then said that he had * asked for the question to be rc- ! peated as it was a very important { one. What he had wanted to know j was whether the questioner was ! personally interested'
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 93, 1 April 1911, Page 7
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