DOMESTIC HELP QUESTION
SUGGESTED IMPORTATION OF HAREM SKIRT WEARERS. Christchurch, March 26. The inevitable humorist bobbed up serenely at Mr. Massey's meeting at Ainberley on Saturday night. Several questions hnd been asked and answered, when an individual in the centre of the hall rose and addressed Mr. Massey thus: "You are no doubt aware that there is a shortage of domestic helps in the country. You may have noticed that the ex-Sultan of Turkey left five hundred wives and that nobody seems to know what to do with them. Would you be in favor of arranging for them to come to New Zealand as domestic helps ?" A burst of laughter followed this ingenious query. Mr. Massey asked that the question be repeated, but the humorist was satisfied with having got his joke off ana declined to repeat it. Mr. Massey then said that he liad asked for the question to be repeated as it was a very important one. What he had wanted to know was whether the questioner was personally interested!
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 28 March 1911, Page 5
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172DOMESTIC HELP QUESTION Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 28 March 1911, Page 5
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