"SHAKE, BIG BOY."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 217, 14 September 1939, Page 5

"SHAKE, BIG BOY."

[ MAYORAL REQUEST. CRITICAL ALDERMAN. " INCONGRUOUS ACTION." (By Air Mail.) j LONDON, August 20. Alderman Vincent Wyles, of Coventry —a former Mayor—still thinks he was justified in rebuking Alderman A. B. C. Kempe, Mayor of Ramsgate, for asking] visitors to call him "Big Boy." i

| "But I feel quite sure," he said, "that ihe is really a good sport. If ever I am near Ramsgate I shall hope to have a friendly chat with him." Air. Wvles was replying to criticisms | of him made bv Air. Kempe. | "Mr. Kempe,' lie said, "has used the i word 'snobbery.' People who know me | know I am not a snob. But I think I I know where to draw the line, j ' Mr. Kempe says he has entertained [Royalty with befitting dignity. I do not j doubt it, bait I would guarantee he did j not use the 'Big Buy' stuff then. "It does seem incongruous that he should appear in the traditional top-hat and tail-coat and then encourage people j to use slang expressions when they meet I • him in the street. "And it seems inconsistent for Mr. Kempe to accuse me of not minding my own business when his general policv is | Ito keep Ramsgate and its attractions! j well before the public." J