HULL'S MAYOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 298, 17 December 1935, Page 10

HULL'S MAYOR.

CANDID TALK TQ COUNCIL

" CITY WITHOUT DIGNITY."

(Special.—By Air . Mail.) .i l-> ■- LONDON, November 16

Mayors and Lord Mayors throughout England and Wales were installed this week. Everything went off well —except in" Hull/' There - the "retiring Sbcialist Lord Mayor, Alderman Archibald Stark, whose election last* year was oppose'Jpby all the anti-Socialists', astonished the council by this reply to the unanimous vote of thanks: "I have received your vote of thanks with mixed feelings, because I have vivid, memories of words in the opposite direction. For hundreds of • years the- .-Lord' Mayor had -been elected by the; unanimous votes of the council. Not so Archibald. At the time I was elected I was an unemployed iron worker vivith an "elementary education, but I. Avas intelligent enough to know that to uphold the .dignity of Lord Mayor of this city was" easy enough, because there was very little left tp uphold." Miss Beryl Holmes, tlie pretty twenty-one-year-old typist who retired from the post of Mayoress of Wood Green, hear London, said that during her year of office she attended scores of bazaars, prize givings, dances and. dinners —sometimes two dinners in one evening. And she found, it trying. "I could not enjoy the first dinner," she said, "because I had to remember thafi there was a- second one that I should have to eat, and the second also, when I fdced it;-'could not be enjoyed."