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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16114, 1 May 1923, Page 6

Some interesting reminiscences crop ■ up in the political addresses Mr. Mas- • js giving jn the Onmaru ejeetorj ate. At Five Forks he told how in an j early electioneering campaign he had , used up two horses and covered I}s • miles in one day in order to see the . electors. "I don't think I would, care , to ride 100 miles a day now," he added. f "The horse would not like it," prompt- . j ly commentec} the chairman, and roused . a hurst pf j.ityglUftr, Th,o rcforonco to , j Mr. Massoy'i? weight led him to tell a , I quaint story against himself of a small • boy in the Tauranga electorate, who . had chummed up with him- Pointing i to a little girl in, the street, the youngf step tjje. Primen, Minister t^a • information that that w.ag hp; ojs.tor. ■ "And,'' he added with importanee, "she i called, you 'Fatty,' ''. "I don't think i she was far wrong," was Mr. Massey's good-humored comment.