BRICK-LAYING TEST
73-YEAR-OLD MEMBER OF COMMONS LONDON, May 18. Sir Harry Selley, a 73-year-old member of the House of Commons, laid 200 bricks in 58 minutes in the House of Commons court to prove the contention that the Works Ministry s target for bricklayers of 200 to 300 a day was absurdly small. Sir Harry Selley, dressed in a garden suit and a bowler hat as a compliment to the industry, had not laid bricks, since he was aged 27. He had promised Mr Hicks, Parliamentary Secretary for the Works Ministry, £1 for every brick unlaid under his selfimposed target of 200 in under two hours, the money to go to a hospital. Mr Hicks, who was an interested spectator during the performance, produced a bottle of beer for the red and perspiring Sir Harry, who downed it in one gulp and went on with his task Sir Harry declared when he finished that 800 bricks a day for an ordinary cottage was a reasonable target to set. _______
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25849, 21 May 1945, Page 6
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