MOVED ON.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir— To-day, at 1.30 p.m., I walked past the new offices of the Colonial Mutual Life, met a friend, stopped to talk, and was promptly, yet politely, told to " move on." As several gentlemen of a variegated type were standing a few yards away, also talking, I asked the. policeman wiry he did not invite them to do likewise. He replied that if we stood there we should be taken for spielers. I thanked him for his friendly advice, and we moved on, and watched the sequel. He remained looking up to Heaven (that being the only direction in which he could look without seeing that the law was being broken), aud then he moved on— everyone moved on, in factj except the statue referred to. This suggests a conundrum of an inoffensive kind. What is the difference between an ordinary man, a policeman, and a spieler ? One stands not on the order of his going, the second stands on his dignity, whilst the third stands on the footpaths. And thus all things are lovely. But why ? I am, &c, Cyril J. Dasent. Wellington, 20th April, 1898.
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Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 101, 30 April 1898, Page 2
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192MOVED ON. Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 101, 30 April 1898, Page 2
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