"8.-P.'s" LATE GROOM.
The Hull School Board has declined to votfi a holiday for the children in their schools on the expected receipt of the news of the relief of Mafeking. The decision has caused a former groom to Colonel Baden-Powell to write to a local journal protesting against the refusal. In the course of his letter he says :—" I have a son, he has never been away from school excepting when ill since he commenced to go, but he will be absent that day, and his father will also have his holiday. Perhaps lam more interested in Mafeking than many Hull people, for the reason that for three year 3 I was groom to Colonel Baden-Powell, and therefore I know him, ay, and worship him. too." Clear) • the old saying about heroes and lueir attendants will need revision.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6708, 29 May 1900, Page 4
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139"B.-P.'s" LATE GROOM. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6708, 29 May 1900, Page 4
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