MR FRASER HOLDS UP DOCKS
INCIDENT DURING TOUR Mr Peter Fraser, the Prime Ministei of New Zealand, is one of the friendliest of the distinguished visitors wh< have recently visited Britain. A 8.8. C 1 broadcast described an amusing ineij dent that took place when he yisitec . Liverpool docks, states a 8.8. C. bul- | letin. At one clock New Zealand lamt was being unshipped into weighted railI way wagons - . A photographer insistec on posing Mr Fraser for a picture holding a frozen carcase of lamb in his arms and surrounded by dockers. The dockhands, having no idea whe their visitor was, complained stronglj about the stoppage in unloading. The ! complaints of course stopped like magic as soon as they were told his identity. Far from being offended. Mr Frasei was delighted. "Good they should grumble,” he told reporters afterwards “I have heard allegations about in ; efficiency. There may be some, but i have not seen it; these men desire only ' to set on with the iob.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 25 October 1941, Page 7
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