HER ARISTOCRATIC COUSIN
AND HER HUSBAND'S NECESSITY
An excellent story of the manner in which the "political oracle" is "worked" by office-seekers in this country has just, leaked out (says the Dominion). A responsible person was required to fill tho duties of cleaner at tho offices of the General Staff at Headquarters, and there was the usual stream of applicants, who submitted divers qualifications in support of their claims for appointment. The gem of the collection, however, and one which struck the Department "all of a heap,'' so to speak, was one particular application, which included among the list of qualifications the statement that the applicant's wife was a cousin of the wife of a certain exalted politician. The moral of the story, of course, is that political influence is regarded seriously by some people as a desirable asset to the equipment of an application for a Government billet.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11106, 1 August 1911, Page 5
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149HER ARISTOCRATIC COUSIN Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11106, 1 August 1911, Page 5
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