THE POLLEN PENSION CLAIM

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1604, 8 July 1887, Page 3

THE POLLEN PENSION CLAIM

Refening to the Pollen Pension o?p { m, the Auckland "Bell" saya :— As;"'n and a^ain his shameless petition la bowled over m the Assembly, but still he comes up smiUiig, and has at it again. W hen one considers the length of time that this gentleman has been tugging r t the public teat, and that evety bone and musolb In hia body has bean grown from the public corn, and that he baa not, from his earliest colonial experience, been living on anything bat the loaves of ofgoe, there seems something of sublimity m thn audacity with whioh he prefers this o'ftlm for more- That he should hold oat his band just now, wb en poor hard- wort lag wretonea ia the public service are being sacked or having their wages shaven down to starvation scale, would seem to •bow him n bereft; of common sense r /i he is of modesty. Tha idea of a h»bj heuriy old man liks him, who is good for mischief and Impudence m the Legislative Council for a dozen years yet, idly eating bread at the coet of the workers,, would be BuQjcienjjly irritating m any man bat m Or Pollen it is; tyartlcuhrly aggravating, for the,re ia not another ma.n m the oolony so univer?-illy disliked am one; the grea; body pf thp poopl^ of New £?alaad, no; quf'who bq arrogantly expresses hia contempt for anything that appears to commend iteelf, to popular aooeptation.