A TURNIP GHOST.
Tlie'Hon F. M. B. Fisher threw off a few sparks at the Ngaruawahia electrical works c opening yesterday. He indicates that the issue at the next general election is to be whether the coin)try is.to.be governed by constitutional methods, or whether anarqhy and revolution are to rule. Mr Fisher is' innocent enough to imagine that the people in. tlie country are very simple, the residents of Ngaruawahia particularly so. Therefore, he trotted out that old yarn about the terrorists who were going to distribute the seeds of noxious'weeds amongst the farms and smash the packaged of the farmers on the. wharves of the ports. It was time, lie shouted, that "all right-minded New /iealanders got together and Stamped such practices out!" The next thing: we shall probably hear is that Mr Davy Jones has been instructed .t6 furnish each Reform • candidate with, a'terrifying turnip ghost.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11029, 18 March 1914, Page 4
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148A TURNIP GHOST. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11029, 18 March 1914, Page 4
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