The Wizard
Sir, — I agree entirely with James J. Duncan that the self-styled Wizard is a source of air pollution in the Square. It is my opinion that he is a very bad influence on the impressionable young unemployed people who sit watching him ranting. Ido not come in to town often but last week when I passed through the Square I heard a man ask him why he does not try to get a job. The Wizard shouted back that gentlemen do not work. For this man to be termed by some people a tourist attraction, must be the sickest joke of the century. — Yours, etc., FAYE O’SULLIVAN, October 18, 1980.
Sir, — In regard to one anti-Wizard radical, a certain James Duncan (October 18), I would like to comment too. Have not the bagpipes (that heavenly instrument) enough volume to ward off that master of humour? There is enough room in the Square for everyone to have a fair go but this bonnie Scot is out to plant the Scottish flag in the Square — another colony perhaps? The two can well compete but is it prestigious to have that piece of Square outside the Cathedral? A final point: Up with New Zealand (to the top of the world according to the Wizard) and up with Alf’s Army and its mighty (rubber) hammer hand! — Yours, etc., PAUL FLEMING. October 20, 1980.
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