“The kindest thing the electors of Waitaki could have done for me, was to have turned me down the first time I stood for Parliament,” said Mr J. Bitchener, M.P., at last Friday’s meeting of the South Canterbury Executive of th<j Fanners’ Union in Timaru, in reply to a. member who had jocularly suggested that some good things were going for those who were fortunate enough to bo members of the House (states the Herald). Mr Bitchener added that he could assure his fellow members of the. union that if there were any plums going lie had not come across them.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2514, 15 December 1927, Page 5
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