STORIES OF PARLIAMENT.
MEMBER'S SMART • RETORT. "Your president has asked me to toll you all you want to know," said (lie Hon. \V. Downie Stewart, Minister of Finance, in his address to Auckland business men yesterday. "That reminds me of an incident in the last session of Parliament. A member, who was being subjected to very heavy interjection, remarked that lie would tell the House all he knew about a certain subject. 'That won't take very long,' came an interjection. 'Perhaps not.' came the instantaneous reply. ' But it would not. take any longer to tell all we both know.' "
Another gdod Parliamentary story was told by Mr. Stewart, in concluding his address. The Minister said he. had questioned an elderly messenger as to why he always came back to Parliament in session time, when he could probably, secure a better position'elsewhere. "Well, it's like this, Mr. Stewart," the messenger seriously replied. "Politics has a sort of fascination for me, as it has .for you. And, you know, it does not need any brains."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19947, 16 May 1928, Page 12
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