"NOT EVEN A DRINK."

Shannon News, 25 August 1925, Page 4

"NOT EVEN A DRINK."

A GOVERNOR'S RECEPTIONS MELBOURNE, July 14 Peclariiv;" that the ceremonies connected wiUi government were "sillly rot," Mr, Webber (Labour, Richmond) moved that the office of State Governor of Victoria should be abolished. "We don't even get a drink," he (■laid, referring 1o the levee on the King'l Birthday. "You simply walk up, you are bunched in a lobby like a flock of sheen, you file into the Queen's Hall, where his Excellency shakes hands and immediatly forgets you. and pass out and go home, and don't'even :™e! a drink!" Mr. Webber said that if the House did not support the motion in its entirely he was prepared to accept an amendent that imported State Governors be abolished in favour of Australians. The •no;ion was defeated by 2d votes to 27. Mr. Toucher (Nationalist) voted with the Labour Party. For coin m me head—inhale NAZOL. For sore throats or tickling cough take some drops on sugar. Used either way "NAZOL" works wonder?. 60 doses Xis.* HOCKEY AT NELSON. (iieat concern was expressed when the lnvercargill captain ricked her ankle early in the Tournament. Q-tol, however, saved the situation, with its wonderful embrocatlve •'-tiue.