“Sing, did yer say? Old Bill ’Awkins sing? Not ’alf ’e can’t. Like a bloomin’ fog-’orn. W’y mate, I went to see the ’Spurs one day, an’ we ’ad some of this ’ere communist singin’, yer know—forty thousan’ people all singin’ ■Fire dahn below’ —an’ singin’ like billy-o, mind yer. Well, all a’ once the conductor stopped us dead, an’ pointin’ at old Bill, ’e said, ‘Will that genTman in the soft ’at, wiv a muffler round ’is neck, kinflly stop singin*. ’E’s spoilin’ Ithe whole bloomin' show' ”
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1928, Page 18
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88Page 18 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1928, Page 18
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