“ I would advise everyone who has the ‘ blues,’ and who can afford it. to get a singing canary,” said Mr Ernest Davis in a bright speech when opening the Auckland Canary and Cage Bird Club’s show. “ I have two,” he said, “ and in the morning I rejoice to hear their notes as the happiest time of my day, and I go forth to my business feeling good. Now that is a tip for citizens who have the ‘blues,’and to those who cannot afford a canary I would give this encouragement. I was thinking that instead of the Prime Minister bringing down his Budget on a gloomy, wet day, how much better it would have been if he had presented it to us on Boxing Day, in the middle of the summer, when we are enjoying ourselves.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 34
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