HUMOUR IN THE HOUSE
| aa) N earlier days of the New Zealand Parliament one of the older membets was regarded as an inveterate snob. He was leaving for England on a ship which also numbered among its passengers the champion heavy-weight boxer of New Zealand. As the ship slipped her moorings and moved out into the stream, one of the Parliamentary wits remarked: "What a precious freight, for there go the fawner and floorer of New Zealand." That is a sample, taken at random, from a series of four recorded talks on "Parliamentary Humour," by F. M. B. Fisher, the first of which will be heard from 2YA on Monday, November 19, at 7.15 p.m. "Don" Fisher, as he is familiarly known, represented Canterbury at football and athletics, was Member for Wellington from 1905 to 1914, and"was Minister of Customs, Marine and Pensions in the first Massey Cabinet. He was also a member of the Wellington City Council in. 1907-8. In tennis he won the New Zealand championship doubles five times, mixed doubles four times and was finalist in the championship singles six times. He was a great tennis player in Australia also and captain of a team_ representing New Zealand against Great Britain. He won innumerable championships in Britain, Ireland and many continental countries and the world’s covered court
mixed doubles. Golf, cricket and billiards | were also his games. He was director of the Imperial Commercial Association, London, and on behalf of the Imperial Government was sent on a special mission to the West Indies in 1925. He took an active part in British politics as a Conservative and retired and returned to New Zealand in 1935. His talks will include personal anecdotes about political figures well in the history of New Zealand, i
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 332, 2 November 1945, Page 17
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