PREMIER AS FARM BOY.
TALK WITH PLOUGHMEN. MR. MacDONALD'S MEMORIES. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, the British Prime Minister, recently returned in spirit to the days of his youth and recalled the romance of his early training. He was presenting prizes at the annual ploughing match of the Drainie, Duffus and New Spynie Ploughing Association, held at Muirton Farm, a couple of miles from his Lossiemouth home, the Hillocks. He met several old schoolfellows and chatted with them and the ploughmen who took part in the matches. The Prime Minister, in addressing the prize-winners from a farm waggon, said: "One of the attractions in coming to Muirton is that this is the farm on which I worked myself.
"I remember that in the barns here, when we came in for a middle-o'-day bite, one of the ploughmen would take down his volume of Burns and, lying on the straw, read it to us. Are you still reading your Burns ? You ought to be ashamed of yourselves if you are not. A man who is able to quote Burns from the heart and in the real spirit of Burns is a man who, would not only be a champion ploughman, but would win the cup for the third time, so that for ever afterwards it would be his own property."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21110, 18 February 1932, Page 6
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