A BID FOR FAME.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 273, 17 November 1910, Page 6

A BID FOR FAME.

"OTAHUHTP , OR "GLOVER* (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.^ WELLDOOXiN, Wednesday. Tie member for Auckland Central, Mr. A. E. (ilover, is nothing if not original. He is always startling the House with something new and unexpected, and this evening he fairly took the House of Representatives by storm with his latest proposal. The Hoose had been discussing matters associated with nomenclature. Several members objected that on various railway stations the name of the town or hamlet was not conspicuous enough. As a matter of fact to tihe ordinary train traveller, alleged one member, nearly every small station in New Zealand bore the name of a certain brand of schnapps. Tlh-is led to a further discussion upon the question of the naming of towns. At this stage Mr. Glover rose up from a seat he had taken on the front -Ministerial benches, and informed the House thut he ihad a 'boon to ask. Taking the House into his confidence he informed members that near iby Auckland city there was a picturesque town which bore aa ill-fitting name. He referred to OtahuSiu.

Mr. WiMord: '"How do you pronounce it?"

Mr. Glover: "Pronunciation is difficult, it is called O-ta-hu-hu," and the member for Auckland Central mouthed the word syllable by syllable distastefully, "and so twfore I die," continued Mr. Glover, "I hope to 3ee tie town that is now called Otahuhu emblazoned with the name of Glover. It is the desire of my heart to ccc that name famous, and so I ask members, in the kindness of their hearts, to agree to change the difficult Otaihuhu to the more easily pronounced Glover." "The Hon. T. Mackenzie wae about to speak," interrupted the Speaker, as though he had not heard Mr. Glover's little outburst, and fch*» Minister called upon thereupon proceeded to talk of other matters. A NEWSPAPER TRIBUTE. The Wellington "Evening Post" tonight devotes an interesting little leaderette to the representative for Auckland Central. X'nder the heading '"A Glover for an Ota'huhu," it says Mr. A. E. Glover has one outstanding merit, he hae raised larger crops of laughter than any other meiriber who has sown thinps, which Americans call "smile-seed." Mr. GloveT does not add pages to Uhe Statute Book, but he flourishes various comic cuts of his own invention. He is the 'humorist who floridly pleaded for a change of t/he capital back to Auckland. He is the one who used pretty rhetoric on behalf of the mottled kauri bedstead on which a royal duke once reposed. He is the genial preacheT w>ho declared ttoat unless bookmakers were allowed to pra<> bice on the racecourse the butchers, bakers and landlords would suffer. In Tetura for the fun which Mr. Glover furnishes on draft days for a weary and dreary assembly he desires to have his name immortalised. He wishes to have his name, substituted for Otahuhu. If McNab was substituted for Maori musio in the south, w4y not a Glover for an Otahuhu in the north? New Zealand may smile at genial Mr. Glover's very serious request, but it is said by those who know that no man is more firmly seated in the House. It is stated that no political cordite, dynamite, gelignite, or blasting powder could shift him from Auckland Central. He is not a walking cyclopedia of national politics, but he is credited with marvellous canvassing albHrties."