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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 57, 10 June 1916, Page 5

The point whether a youth was better fitted for the privations and rig-’ 7 - ours of active service than a man more f in the “sere and yellow,” was discussed in the House of Representatives the .other day; Mr Payne was regretting the fact of lads of eighteen being dragged away from their mothers, when Mr Okey interjected: “I could have put you put of the House when I was eighteen.” (Laughter.) Mr y Payne: “I doubt whether you ceuld have.” A voice; “Try it.” Mr Payne remarked that it was not right . ... to take a young men twenty years of age who had no voice in the legislation of the country “while the adipose member for Taranaki and myself sit here ” The Chairman ruled that the member for Grey Linn was not >. entitled to use such an expression, so Mr Payne then resumed his general reniarks.