NEWSBOY TO MINISTER
.NOT LUCK. BUT PLUCK. Bom in a poor suburb, working in a glass bottle factory at night tor < a week selling newspapers in the afternoons to help to eke out a living—that was the -start in life of Percy Gerald Stewart, now Minister of works and Railways in the Federal Government.
Years ago—not too many years ago either—Mr Stewart, used to sell papers on the steps of Federal Parliament House. The great building at the top of Bourke Street in those days meant nothing more to hirh than a "stand passed by great people who bouy.u newspapers. His meteoric rise is not due to any element of luck—pluck lias been the quality which lifted him from his lowlv position in the city to one of the most honoured positions in Australia. Some years ago the Mallee called for strong men. Young Stewart, who had been a sailor, went. Just a little over five years ago he was a struggling wheat farmer in the Mallee, and when he is not otherwise engaged he may still be found out there, where men live hard, and work harder, and if it had not been for the taunts ot his friends, that he did not dare tackle politics, the House might never have known him- fn Parliament, Stewart rapidly made an impression, and members of all parties respect him. Even Mr Hughes admires his courage and abiiitv.
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Otaki Mail, 14 March 1923, Page 3
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236NEWSBOY TO MINISTER Otaki Mail, 14 March 1923, Page 3
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