THE PASSING SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 99, 29 April 1933, Page 8

THE PASSING SHOW.

(By THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.)

Not without interest that "the patriarch of hospitaldom in New Zealand" (the Hon. Charles Manly Luke) has quitted the Hospital Board-in Wellington af«-3r TWO LUKES, fifty years' service. He and his younger brother, Sir John Luke, were Penzance (Cornwall) boys and looked the part, for both lia'd the rugged ancient British features common to Cousin Jack and his neighbours in Wales. _ They were iron founders in Wellington, which reminds one that Billy Wallace, the noted footballer, used to work for them and was sure of getting leave from the firm whenever■ Billy s country called him into the muddy field. JUisappointing on seeing the latest photograph o the veteran Charles to note that, although he is still bearded, he is only just, l'or more years than one cares to recall ho possessed the most magnificent beard in Wellington, and nobody knew the pattern of his tie or even •his waistcoat. John, his brother, used to wear a beard, too, but it was not a circumstance to the true and undoubted beaver of Charles. John, whom M.A.T. knew rather well was amon"- public men the one who seethed with news. You might stick him up anywhere tickle him with a question, and he would laugh with a harvest of paragraphs.