It was the day of the school concert, and the audience consisted mostly of proud parents anxious to see their children perform. No. 8 on the programme was Master William Adams, who was going to recite. Striking a bold attitude, this young gentleman began as follows :— “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears !” At that moment a mother turned to the woman sitting beside her who, as it happened, was a neighbour. “There, that’s the Adams boy for you,” she said tartly. “He wouldn’t be his mother’s son if he wasn’t trying to borrow something.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5518, 30 December 1929, Page 4
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