Untitled

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 103, 2 May 1941, Page 9

j The politician, sporting a brand-new | hat, stepped upon a soapbox in one of j the city’s toughest districts. He cleared j his throat. “Ladies and gentlemen,” iho began. That was as far as he got. jAn over-ripe tomato sped from the . second-floor of a tenement house and landed squarely on tho politician's face. The startled speaker looked up and discovered a sullen-faced woman glarI ing down at him from a second-storey i windows “ Madam,” complained the politician, “ what’s the idea of assault- ' ing me'with a tomato?” The woman fingered a second tomato. “That will teach you, mister,” she scowled, “to take your hat off when addressing a