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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1929, Page 8

LADY ASTOR AND GODIVA. MINER’S HARSH RETORT. Lady Astor very often lays herself open to sharp rejoinders when she ventures to lecture her opponents in the House of Commons. In the debate on a Government grant of £OOO,OOO as part of a £ for £ .contribution to the Lord Mayor’s Fund for the miners slie told the Socialists not to talk only about the misery of the unemployed, and said that it was caused by the bad leadership of the miners. “Drop your preaching,” she preached, and this, with much more advice, was too much for Mr Rihson, a blunt minors’ agent from Durham. “Wo have just heard,” he began, “a speech from a beautiful Lady GodivaV’ L"dy Astor blushed furiously. There was loud laughter. Everyone thought that the miner had instanced the wrong patroness, but not at all. “She has been riding along, nude of political ideas,” added Mr Ritson*, when the laughter subsided. Then, with a pointed look at Lady Astor, he said : “We have been advised to emigrate. But wo have sometimes suffered from migration into this country.” I