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’A good story is going round about John Burns, As most people know, the President of the Board of Trade has a knack of dropping in unexpectedly at various workhouses. One day, so the story goes, Mr. Burns was passing a large workhouse where certain repairs were in operation, and made his way in. Meeting one of the men, he asked him: Where’s your boss?’ The man looked him up and down. ‘l’m the boss/ he answered surlily. ‘Oh!’ said John with a tone of incredulity that evidently roused the fellow’s ire. ‘Don’t you believe it?’ he asked. ‘ Then I’ll show you whether I’m boss or not! ’Ere, Henderson/ he called to a laborer who was passing at the moment, ‘go and get your money! You’re sacked Then, turning to the astonished member for Battersea, he said: There! D’you believe me now?’
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New Zealand Tablet, 18 January 1912, Page 54
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144PROOF POSITIVE New Zealand Tablet, 18 January 1912, Page 54
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