O'MALLEY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12588, 20 August 1910, Page 3

O'MALLEY

Mr. King: O'Ma.lley. who is Commonwealth Minister for Home Affairs over yonder, suggests a queer question for tho next census-paper. "Are voit out of work, and, if so, how long?" Tf tho su Ripest inn is agreed to, there should bo come strang-e ans-.vers. I know peo-

I'le in Australia who have been out of work well over a quarter of a century... and during all that time have talked. ; about their anxiety to bo employed.I Australia is rich in unemployables. Some- | of them are harmless decent chaps wlttr. ! an inveterate longing to he for ever on.. | lira move. They wander about the continent, doing edd jobs when necessary_. ; They seem to have no ambitions and nx\expertations. Others hang about the-' cities. They don't like exertion, and: tho mode of their existence through tke j winter is a^tnvstery. In the summer ie?, Australia a 'nan can sleep any where, mid if he has •energy enough to walk he 'can always cadge something to eat — ! Others still —the meanest —live on their ! wives, their relatives, or their friends.. I knew one quaint chap in Sydney wholived comfortably for two years on tersr shillings a week, of which lie paid ttl— I most half for his bedroom. He never lefuscd an invitation to' dinner or tcrlea, and one way and, another (being a-. gtniai nnd interesting chap) he made a lot of fiiends I know Mr. O'Malley also. He is the quaintest politician on earth. He wenrs.---a hat that is built specially to his whimHe calls everybody " brotherj "and he ss-> said to bo the smartest insurance canvasser in the Empiie. As a Minister bo must be great.