APPEAL TO BEAUTY
JOKE ON MR. COATES
(THE BUN'S Parliamentary Reporter .) WELLINGTON, To-day.
Tha old, old joke upon the Prime Minister's publicity campaign at the general election was exploited with quite a little success to-night by Mr. W. E. Parry, who displayed for the edification of the House of Representatives and galleries, a poster with a photograph of Mr. Coates, marked, “To Women Voters." Mr. Sullivan: It is an appeal of beauty to beauty. Labourites laughed while Mr. Coates blushed deeply. Mr. Parry read on: “He inspires confidence.” Mr. Coates (smiling): Well, there il nothing wrong in that, is there? Mr. Parry (still reading): What is the woman's vote worth? (Laughter and cries from the Government benches of “Ah, ha I”) Mr. Parry (still reading): “Woman can change her mind 20 timea a day.” Mr. E. J. Howard: But she cannot change her Coates. (Further Labour laughter). Mr. Parry continued to read: “They have an instinct for safety and MOurity,” adding as an aside, “That is nine bob and twelve bob a day.”
The intervention of the Speaker, on account of irrelevancy, brought an end to the facetiousness.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 1
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188APPEAL TO BEAUTY Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 1
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