ELECTION SIDE-LIGHTS.
Amusing side-lights of recent British elections are told by a New Zealand er in a letter to a Wellington friend. The writer's daughter, who was canvassing in one of the London areas, knocked at a door, when a strident voice from above called out, " Now don't you come a-bothering me. I'm a consecutive, I ant, and alwuys will bo a consecutive." 1 hen an alarmingly stout woman blocked the way and declared that she would vote for Admiral Taylor, as she was " sick of foreigners." It seemed that she had just had a Greek lodger, who had left without paying his bill. She was told that (he man was near by collecting his washing, so the stout lady rushed into a greengrocer's and " borrowed" the largest parsnip she could secure. In unbelievably quick time she dived into the laundry, attacked the Greek with the parsnip as a weapon and " routed the enemy."-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21068, 30 December 1931, Page 3
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