LIKE JOSEPH OF OLD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 742, 15 August 1929, Page 7

LIKE JOSEPH OF OLD

quotations in house fat years and lean fl-ff SC'iV’3 Parliamentary Reporter, PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Wed. Excursions into the Old Testament “sys were made by two members in he House of Representatives last evening, and one quotation was neatly capped by another. First of all Mr. iv Lye (Waikato) referred to the: Prune Minister as being like Joseph of old who, during the l’at 'ears, had stored up food for the lean years to follow. Mr. D. Jones (Mid-Canterbury) then swooped down on Mr. Lye’s argument ,® rea d it apart. He said that Mr. uye had compared the Prime Minis'er with Joseph of old. He had forgotten that Joseph’s brethren had '°nie to see him. (Laughter.) And oseph was a champion hluffer. (Relaughter.) Joseph had hidden Ills ~e n* ity from his brethren at first, en he had given them food, and Ben'nun h a d received a double portion, sojamin was the wealthy man of , ? eala nd, said Mr. Jones. ,r '°* ce: What about the Davids? 'Loud laughter, i Someone Else: And the Goliaths? •If. Lye went on to refer to the ‘ image duties, saying that if a perthe d ' d DOt kave extravagant ideas, , ® xtra one per cent, primage duty hid make no difference to him. Mr. civ?!A aR convi nced that one per cent. ud not be passed Bn. A man wcuid shim 0 purcllasi e I,ooolb. of tea at rwo fillin'* a pound to make up £1 in ~ of- The same applied to the pur>oase of 12,00011>. of sugar at 2d a lb. the' eame to a matter of voting for e Pennanency of the primage duty, t, ' ontinued. he would not vote for it. r . ‘ <usc lie did not believe in taxing of life of the average