A MINISTER’S MANNERS.
The Minister of Home Affairs (Mr King O’Malley), speaking at an election meeting at Zcehan during the general election in Tasmania, met with some interruption. An elector interjected: 1 want to ask a question on Commonwealth politics. (Interruption.) Mr O’Malley: If these unmitigated scallywags do not keep their mouths shut I will ask a constable to put them out, and if he does not he will find when 1 go back to Melbourne that there is a higher authority, and that J am one of the King’s Advisors. The elector (angrily .advancing to the platform): ])o you call me a scallywag ? Mr O’Malley: I don’t know anything about jon. Well, now, ladies and gentlemen, we will go on. The elector: Very well, go on, but don’t “scallywag” me.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 6
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131A MINISTER’S MANNERS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1913, Page 6
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