MR SEMPLE'S 'HUMOUR'

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 8 July 1913, Page 3

MR SEMPLE'S 'HUMOUR'

PROVIDING JOBS FOR MINISTERS. Speaking at the Opera House at Wellington last week, Mr R. Semple, Federation of Labor organiser, waxed facetious at the expense of Ministers of the Crown. From a remark that when the Labour Parliament started " old Bill's talkiology " would be completely outclassed, Mr Semple wdn't on to indicate the functions .which he would assign to Cabinet Ministers if he had his way with them. "As to old Bill," he said (meaning Mr Massey) "we will give him a pair of gum boots and a bail-rope, and send him into a cow-yard. We quite believe that he knows enough about political economy to bail up a cdw. Then there is Mr Fisher. We will get him a job with Wirth's circus, and his turn will be political gymnastics. Mr Allen, the 'pawnbroker' expert, we will make him inspector of pawn shops. _ As to Mr Herdman, who thinks so much about His Majesty's uniform, we will make him chief inspector at Mount Eden Gaol, Then that very fine gentleman, the Postmaster-Gen-eral. We will stand him outside the post office with his tongue out and let people wet their stamps on it. There are plenty of useful jobs to give these chaps,' concluded Mr Semple. For the remaining members of the Cabinet the Federation Organiser did not provide.