Grievance Against M.P.’s
Forty-four years of a life spent in the Houses of Parliament and no speech ever heard. This is the boast of Mrs Thornton, known to all members of Parliament as “Annie,” who has mended the rugs of both Houses and the official residences for forty-four years, but is now retiring owing to ill-
Annie used sometimes to grow so angry with careless members who burned holes in the carpets with their cigars and cigarettes, that she would sometimes remonstrate with them herself.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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85Grievance Against M.P.’s Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)
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