"A SPOT OF FICTION"
The Pacific Ocean was only a stone'sthrow away from the theatre where Mr. Hiram Hunter, National candidate for Avon, gave an address on Monday evening, but there was nothing pacific about the meeting, says the "Star-Sun." The greatest demonstration of the evening followed a story which Mr. Hunter introduced as "a spot of fiction." He said that the Minister'of-Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) and the Mayor of Christ"church (Mr. R. M. Macfarlane) were going for a drive along the banks of the Avon, and Mr. Macfarlane was showing the Minister his new boulevard. Mr. Semple had said that'he liked the green sward and the trees, but he thought the statues should be better spaced. ■ "What statues?" Mr. Macfarlane had asked. "Why, there between the trees," was the Minister's answer. "Those are not statues, but relief workers," explained Mr. Macfarlane. So uproarious was the booing and hooting that followed this apocryphal story that Mr. Hunter's voice, even with the aid of the public address system, was inaudible for some time. His lips could be seen moving.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 22
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