GOVERNOR’S ASSENT
! CRICKET FIELD INCIDENT SIGNATURE IN A HURRY LONDON, Nov. 14. sir Archibald Weigall, a former Governor of South Australia, related Ito-day how-, after an, urgent measure had',been rushed through both Houses or Parliament in that State, it was brought to him on a cricket field, where, in the middle of the pitch and using a pad as a rest, he signed his assent. i Sir Archibald, who was speaking at a luncheon given, by the Royal Umpire" Society to Mr E. T. Fisk, of Amalgamated "Wireless, added: “Arriving in Australia imbued with Conservative notions of financial purity, I was Very much .Astonished to discover in the Galbinet-room the lighthearted-, ness with which huge-sums were allocated for 'problematical projects, but I realised later that, lavish expenditure war necessary to develop a new country.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18254, 24 November 1933, Page 4
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134GOVERNOR’S ASSENT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18254, 24 November 1933, Page 4
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