PRIME MINISTER’S LAUGH
FALSE EFFORT OF DEATH. Mr Pi. B. Bennett, the Canadian Prime Minister, is very well: so well, in fact, that last month in England he denied with great heartiness a rumour circulated- in both London and Canada that be was dead. _ . Mr Bennett, who is 03, was residing at Harrogate, Yorkshire, and when asked over the telephone from London how he was, vigorously replied: “Very well, thank 5 “ There is a rumour in London that — er —that you are ill,” tactfully remarked his interrogator. “111? Good heavens. thci;e is a rumour that I am dead,” Mr Bennett replied with a hearty laugh. “And you remember what Mark Twain said—the report is very much exaggerated. I have been busy for a while, and I believe Mr Ferguson, the High Commissioner in London, has also been busy explaining that I am very much alive.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22066, 23 September 1933, Page 18
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