BANQUETS AND SNOBBERY.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, .Thursday. Sous amusement was occasioned at the meeting to welcome Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P., by a reference in a speech delivered by Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh to an instance of snobbishness he experienced at a banquet in Wellington. The guests paid 10s per head, at any rate the speaker did, and what was his experience? What did his hearers think he saw? He actually saw certain men drinking champagne at the head of the table, while the bulk of the visitors had to be content with beer. It was nothing to laugh at. It showed the lamentable tone that prevailed in this country. Banquet? had deteriorated in this country. In the days of John Ballance working men were seen at Government banquets. Now you hardly saw a single working man at them. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13324, 2 November 1906, Page 7
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