A Vice-Regal Rumpus: His Ex. Flies off the Handle

NZ Truth, Issue 605, 20 January 1917, Page 5

A Vice-Regal Rumpus: His Ex. Flies off the Handle

Last week, His Ex. Lord Liverpool bestowed a few choice expletives on an enterprising Chrlstchiirch "Bun" reporter, who poked, his nose m at a private confab which. His Ex. was delivering at the Maheno camp. New Zealand wowsers are inexpressibly shocked at His Ex. 's peppery outburst. .

If a' bullock driver wants to urge his team along the bank, he Cuts m with whip and wind and curse (with liberal use of "blanky"). He gets accustomed to the tone and all the crimson phrases, The mildest oath to which he'll own is, "Oh, God spare mo dayses."

And when the shearer gets a "mat" he'll cuss at ten horse power, Until it .gets monotonous, this "shoo- ' ing" by' the hour. He'll think his conversation meet for Englishman or Yankee, ' ' And will not. own up .to a cuss m old colonial "blanky."

So if a bullock-driving bloke may use, up tons of cusses, Why should the wowser pull a mug and make such dreadful fusses. For if a shearer's no^f at fault m b'lankeying the "ramses," A Governor should be allowed a little "Hell and damnses."