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English: Oh, listen to the band; the new concert party at Parliament House.

Shows Premier William Massey reading or singing "My policy" while his band of politicians plays drums, wind and string instruments. At the top left, the ex-Finance Minister Arthur Mielziner Myers hands over a bag of a million pounds surplus. At the top right Premier Massey looks at the figure of Thomas Mackenzie, and reflects: "By Jove, certainly he went out like a man - I wonder if he would mind my offering him a little present".

Massey's band of politicians includes: James Allen on cello (Minister of Finance, Education and Defence), Maui Pomare on accordion (Native Executive), Robert Heaton Rhodes on triangle (Postmaster General), William Herbert Herries on piccolo (Minister of Railways and Native Affairs), William Fraser on tuba (Minister of Public Works and Mines), Francis M B Fisher on slide trombone (Minister of Customs and Marine), Francis Dillon Bell on oboe? (Minister of Internal Affairs), and Alexander Lawrence Herdman on drum (Attorney-General and Minister of Justice).
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Author Hiscocks, Ercildoune Frederick, fl 1899-1940s
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