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A LARGE NUMBER OF MEMBERS are deeply disturbed by the announcement that Ernest Marples, former flamboyant Transport Minister, is to retire from the House at the next election. Ernie has a flat near the House. and is wont to entertain cronies and would-be cronies with excellent wines from his own vineyards during those boring waits for divisions.
RECENTLY the Rt Hon Aubrey Jones has been imitating the habits of male models, in sending to the press an exhaustive resume of his career complete with photograph. A copy reached this office last week, and Puzzle was less than astonished to discover that the Rt Hon Aubrey is in need of extra work. He is at the moment " acting in a consultative capacity to the Nigerian Public Services Review," which is at least a step up from the Prices and Incomes Board. But the talented Jones seems to have time on his hands, time enough at least to recall all the details of his uneventful life and time enough to pose for a particularly gruesome photograph. Puzzle assumes that it is Jones's own teeth which are much in evidence. No point in resting on false laurels.
SPEAKING OF Nigerian Public Services, Chief Enaharo, in London this week, gave an extraordinary figure for the cost of the 1975 World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Lagos — £120,000,000, to include the cost of a new theatre, concert hall and other permanent buildings. Sounds as though there's a black Lord Goodman at work there.
Tom Puzzle
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