BARN-DOOR REMINISCENCES.
MORE OF MR FLATMAN. (Special—By Telegraph.) WELLINGTON, July 5. Commenting on Mr Flatman's speech on the Address-in-Reply, the "New Zealand Times" gallery critic remarks:—The feature of the speech from Mr Fatman was; an extraordinary demonstration of the fact that Mr Mass-ey was nothing—just an ordinary man. - This conclusion seemed to depsnd on several obvious facts, the most interesting of which was Mr Maasey's in-ability'-to convert a wheelbarrow ii/to a motor car. Mr Flat'man struck an unexpected vein of heavy agricultural lmrriour,..ami .after a stream of homely quips lis? rose to his climax with a plea, for kindness to shearers. He had always bjen. good to his farm hands, he said. "Sir," he- added, in personal appeal'to the Speaker. "You know old Joe Noble of'the'iW-est Coast. lie worked for m* for many' yeans, and a, good man he was too." The country pays l £7O an hour forthese barndoor reminiscences
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13330, 6 July 1907, Page 5
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151BARN-DOOR REMINISCENCES. Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13330, 6 July 1907, Page 5
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