THE POLITICIAN’S BURDEN
Much (says “Woomera,” in the Australasian), is expected from the long-suffering M.L.A. It is his duty if be wants to retain a firm hold on the affection of his constituents, to attend every concert, dance, wedding, funeral or christening in the electorate. Eor influential supporters, lie undertakes little commissions in the city.- He will buy a plough for a farmer, or match a ribbon for a farmer’s wife. Some of our most successful politicians cheerfully accept all the burdens thus laid upon their shoulders. But the representative of a farming constituency—himself a farmer—had his patience badly tried the other day. There had beep a wedding at Baringobung, and the whole neighbourhood drove to the railway station to see the bride and bridegroom start on their honeymoon. Baringobung doesn’t rise to confetti, and —oh, horror!—it was discovered that nobody had brought any rice to fiing into the bride’s eyes.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2090, 27 May 1907, Page 3
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151THE POLITICIAN’S BURDEN Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2090, 27 May 1907, Page 3
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