How easy it is to make a mistake was instanced in Morrinsville on Monday, when a certain well-known resident was commenting with horror that the wife of a Cabinet Minister could sit in public smoking a cigarette, and “in a long cigarette holder at that.” His listener commented that in these days it was not unladylike for women to smoke, and there was no reason, if the Hon. A. H. Atmore’s wife wished to smoke that she should not. However, the lady was not Mrs Atmore. Later in the day the statement was turned into a joke, for one of the hearers met the Minister and recited the story. “Well,” the Minister said, “fortunately or unfortunately, it cannot be. true, for I have not yet met Mrs Atmore.” The Minister is a bachelor.—Morrinsville Star.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5500, 13 November 1929, Page 4
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