PRET POUR MON PAYS

NZ Truth, Issue 749, 25 October 1919, Page 3

PRET POUR MON PAYS

(Ready for My Country),

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey has not yet replied to following telegram, as he is m touch "With the quarantine station about the Lord Jellicoe gist dog's pulse and temperature. It would be a catastrophe if Mr. A. J. Entrican took it as his aide-de-camp to Wellington, with the hydrophobic accompaniment of a morbid and unnatural dread of water. My deaV people, beware of dogs, and keep up your muscular 'development on Champion Muscle Raiser Flour, topped off with Standard Soother. Right Hon. W. ,-F. Massey, Wellington. "Press news indicates you want a High Commissioner not over six feet, also Ministers for Railways and Defence. Hope you will not overlook my previous applications for an important office. Auckland appears to be the I Beat of learning:, as Mr. Entrican is coming out for City West, Mr. Poole having decided for lecturing away from the machinations of politicians. Lord Jellicoe presented Mr. Entrican. with a bulldog with a gold and silver .collar, as he was afraid it. would succumb with the Dominion's kindness m the tropics. If Mr. Entrican is successful he will not take it to Wellington, unless for a' close division, to be used for rounding up or blocking 1 with a lingering effect" v., 13/10/19. Bight Hon. Sir Joseph Ward, Wellington. "I have put m applications for High Commissioner and^ Minister of Railways or Defence. In fact, I could take the lot if salary and travelling allowances- were right »^I $ope Mr. Poole is not after them, as he is retiring m favor of Mr. Entrican. Lord Jellicoe made the latter a present of a bulldog that attended to the 'dog-watch' m the North Seas. It has a gold and silver collar. I prefer the collar. Mr. EnI trican assures me he will not take the dog to Wellington with a thorny unless for party purposes, and he now has It training. You know trousers— apart from a mouthful — are at present beyond the reach of man, though It would be more disastrous with a Highland costuma." % ■.' : Auckland, li/IG/19. V, Auckland, • ?Your telegram . to hand and contents noted, but the issues involved are too vast for the ordinary man to handle (particularly the bulldog)." , (Signed) J. Q.Ward. D 4 . ■ . 14/10/19.