COUNTESS AS PEDLAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 346, 18 August 1930, Page 8

COUNTESS AS PEDLAR

TOURING WITH A LORRY. A large motor-lorry, painted in red, white, and blue, with a Union Jack on tho bonnet, stood in front of Staunton Harold Hall, Ashby-de-la-Zoueh, Leicestershire, recently, laden with all sorts of articles from greenhouse plants to clothes pegs. .In white letters was painted on the side of the lorry: Countess Ferrers, Hawker, Staunton Harold. By the steps of the mansion, one of the largest in Leicestershire, Countess Ferrers was loading the lorry, but she stopped to say to a newspaper correspondent:— ‘‘l have turned hawker because the Loughborough division Women’s Conservative Association is badly in need of money. I tour the villages in the constituency, to sell all sorts of goods, I drive the lorry on to the village greens, ring a bell,, and out come the villagers to do business. Trade is pretty good.” The countess said no propaganda was mixed with the business and she had secured a pedlar’s license in the usual way. Countess Ferrers looked bronzed and agreed that a hawker’s life suited her. However, her career on the road soon ended, as her arrangements were made for a fortnight only. All the goods she sold were given by Conservative supporters.