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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9613, 20 March 1917, Page 2

Says a Melbourne paper:—Regard ing Mr D. C. McGrath, M.P., now on service in Franco, a good story, which has the merit of being true, is told about his part in the last election. This was in the days before the I.Tv.W. made '“sabotage” a household w-ord-A nersistent male questioner, at a largo meeting for women at , the Ballarat Town Hall, at last demanded: “Is the candidate in favour of sabotage?” Charlie had not met this before, and was fairly stumped to know what to do about it, till he had a sudden inspiration. Pointing sternly at the offender, he replied, “Sir, 1 ask you is that a question to put to me before an audience of ladies? Have you no mother, no sisters? AVhat would they think, air, if they heard you ask such a disgraceful thing at a meeting of the ladies of Ballarat?” And two constables actually threw the poor wretch out of the hall. Charlie relates that after *ho meeting be -made a bee-line for the Trades Hall and looked the word up in the dictionaryl