Archbishop Julius is not above telling a joke against himself. In his introductory remarks in his speech on the prohibition motion at the meeting of the Council of Christian Congregations at Chriatehurch, he recalled having given an address on temperance 52 years ago. “I was then fall and thin,” said his Grace, “and when I stated to the meeting that I was a total abstainer an old lady audibly commented: ‘Eh, the poor dear, and he looks like it, too.’”
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1922, Page 12
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