DEBT TO PIT PONY
Sir Harry LauSler Repays Saviiig of Life s5 i: APPEAL TO THE GABINET r~^ LONDON^ Oet. 2. 1 % ' How a famous Scotsman' rcpaid. a'. debt was related by Sir Harry Laude? when epeaking at a f ete in aid of a home of rest for horses at Carlisle. "1 began my career by driving pit panies in the Scottish mines," said Sir Harry. ' ' On one occasion my pony, 'Little Captain,' was abo.ut teto feet away from me and he heard the roof. cracldng. He bolted and just then the roof whero we had been standi&g fell in. We phould certainly have been buried if it had not been for his acute hearing and his sense of •self-pre'servatiott. "Tho years slid by, and one day I pledged myself to sing to the Cabinet when Mr. Asauith was PrihiO Minister. After I had sung to them and amused them, I said. 'Gentiemen, wdit a minute. I want to speak to you on the question of pit ponies. If. after what I have said> yoti do not do somethins: quickly, I will go to the country with my views.' "I urged the C&binet to appoint inspeetors and to give them power to visit the mines without notice to seO the condition of the ponies. That is in operatio'n to-dav. "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 38, 8 November 1937, Page 7
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