AN UNKNOWN TONGUE.
A laugh was raised in the Arbitration Court this morning by Mr C. Baldwin, advocate for the New Zealand Workers’ Union, when asked by Mr W. Cecil Prime (employers’ representative on the Bench) if certain concessions made by the union were his quid pro quo. Mr Baldwin hesitated for a fraction of a second, and then jocularly replied: “I don’t speak French, your Honor.” Ilis Honor, Mr Justice Frazer, to further the discussion, suggested that the concession was the union’s “ sprat to catch a mackerel.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 13
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88AN UNKNOWN TONGUE. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 13
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