"The parson is a parasite," cried a "soap-box orator" in Kavangahapo I?oad on Saturday night (says tho Aucklnnd "Herald"). After several repetitions of this cry, a man in tho crowd plucked up sufficient courage (o ask: "How can tho parson bo a parasite, when he's voluntarily paid by a voluntary society?" "He doesn't produce anything, answered the "orator," gesticulating wildly. "No." ventured tho man in the crowd, "neither does the ship'? onptain, nor Iho policeman, nor Hie firomnn." The "orator" snw the philosophy of this retort, .mil wandered on into furthw AtaUmonts which no one but himself JUHMWtOOdi
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1584, 30 October 1912, Page 6
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98Untitled Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1584, 30 October 1912, Page 6
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