"MIGHTY ONES OF GREYMOUTH."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1085, 25 March 1911, Page 6

"MIGHTY ONES OF GREYMOUTH."

THE NOTHINGNESS OP HOKITIKA. ■Something that the Hon. A. R. Guinness, Speaker of the House of Representatives and _\[.l'. for Greymouth, has said at a meeting at Greymouth about train services 011 ilie West Coast docs not appear to have met with the lull approval of the Hokitika "Times." Jlis clnef offence seems to have consisted in uttering the words, "There should be a centre, ami Greymouth i.s the centre to which all other districts should be subservient." "ilokitika, ltoss, Juunara, Stafford town,Kanieri, ami all other districts must not breathe," says the "Times"; "they must not stir hand or foot. Nurse and feed and foslei Mr. Guinncss's constituency, let the end be what it may to others, if a crumb happeneth to fall from Arthur's table, let us take it up gladly and meekly, and divido it among us; but wo 11111 st not sit at the table or put a hand upon the platter. "Wo aro nothing, and less than nothing—we are subservient slaves —let us bo content, for the great Guinness hath shown us our place. The mighty ones of Greymouth must lord it over the land; tho Parliament Buildings will bo removed from Wellington to Maekay Street; the Governor's residence will rear itself in noble emulation in Richmond Quay and over all will Arthur reign, the real Lord Paramount. Tho Mayor will see to the by-laws and enforce the same like a 'brick.' 'All other districts should be subservient,' saith the great man, and why not? Is not he the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and why should 110 not have a little railway all 011 his own connecting his backyard with 'all other districts' what time thoo 'all other districts' languish and decline and dio unheeded and unrecojrniscd as meekly as any of Herod's iuno- , cents J".