PUGILISM AND POLITICS.
The President of the Masterton Boxing Club ventured the suggestion at the boxing tournament last evening that persons who aspired to politics should graduate in the pugilistic ring. ' There is a good deal of sound reasoning in this suggestion, apart from its seeming jocularity. A man who wishes to. succeed in politics must cultivate endurance asnveJl as courage, and must be s . prepared to take hard knocks as well as. gives tihem. "iNbt'a few of the most disr-. tihguished-politicians in. the Empiipe have, been taught in their younger days to l use the gloves.' , ■)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10274, 29 June 1911, Page 4
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97PUGILISM AND POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10274, 29 June 1911, Page 4
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